Note 3 — TO THE RESPECTABLE BODY OF WEST-INDIA PLANTERS and MERCHANTS, THE FOLLOWING POEM IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOUR.
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If the abettors of the Slave trade Bill should think they are too harshly treated in this Poem, let them consider how they should feel if their estates were threatened by an agrarian law; (no unplausible measure) and let them make allowances for the irritation which themselves have occasioned.