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were in their own country, and knowing the unjustifiable means by which they were made slaves there, their cruel usage when on board ship, and their severe usage when in the West Indies, he could not consistently with his ideas of what was right, purchase any slaves, and particularly as he did not intend to remain on the plantation himself.

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