Synopsis
Excerpt from The Progress of Colonial Reform: Being a Brief View of the Real Advance Made Since May 15th, 1823, in Carrying Into Effect the Recommendations of His Majesty, the Unanimous Resolutions of Parliament, and the Universal Prayer of the Nation, With Respect to Negro Slavery
It may be inferred from the language of this dispatch, as well as from that which His Majesty's Ministers held in parliament, that at this time they were not fully aware of the real state of things in {the West Indies, or of the general temper and feeling of the Colonists; and that they relied on a ready compliance with requisitions so reasonable and moderate in themselves, and so consonant to the universal senti ment of the'british parliament and public. They were in vain warned, by persons who assumed to be better informed upon this point, that they had embarked in a hopeless undertaking; that the Colonists would prove inflexible by any recommendations which could be ad dressed to them, or. Indeed, by any considerations short of authoritative interference, on the part of the Government, and of Parliament; and that the course it was determined to adopt, must end in delay and disappointment, if not in insurrection, and all its concomitant evils.
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