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Show 2DO A DAY SPENT AT of the ~to k fhr a sl:lvc sl1ip, and were hanging it~ tl1o shop windows of Liverpool for sale. For Clarkson's :1ttcntion \\'US first callcll to t1JCsc things by observing them in the shop \\'inclow: and on inquiring the usc of.onc of them, the mnn informed him thnt m::t.ny times ncgrocB wcTe suJky and tried to starve thc rn ~:;chTcs to death, ~md this instrument was used to force open tlJCir jaws. Of Clarkson's 1a_bor in tLis investigation some idea may be gatl1ercd from his own 1\'0rtl:::, wl1cn stating tltat for n scnsou he was compel leu to retire from the cau:c, he thus speaks. "As far as I my::;clf ·was con· corned , a11 exertion was then over. rrhc nervous system was almost shattered to pieces. Both my memory and my hc:uing failed me. SUll.1cn tlizzincs.~cs se ized my llcacl. A confused singing in tl1c car followed me wherever I went. On go ing to bed the \·cry stairs seemed to dunce up and down under me, so that, mis~ placing my foot, I sometimes fe11. rralking, too, if it conLinueu but half an Lour, cxbaustccl me so that pro· fuse perspirations followed, and the same eflect was produced even by an active exertion of the mind for the like time. These disorders hau been brou:;ht on by degrees, in PLAY>'ORD ll A LL. 2Dl consc'qucncc of thu severe labors ncccss:nily att:-~.chcd to the promotion of tl1c cause. .For seven years I had a correspondence to maintain ''lith four huu<lrcd per~ sons, with my own hnnd; I hnJ some book or oth<'r annua11y to write in behalf of tl1c cause. In thi::; ti1nc I had traveled more than thirty-flvc thous:md miles in search of evidence, anfl a great part of these journeys in the night. All this time my mind had been on the stretch. It hacl boon bent too to th is one subject, for I had not evcu leisure to attend to my own eonecms. fJ.1Jrc Yarious instances of barbarity which had COmO successively to my knowledge within this period, l1n.d vexed, harrassed, and affiictecl it. The wound which these had produced 'I'US Tenclcrccl still ckepcr by those cruel disappointments before related, which arose from the reiterated refusals of persons to give their testimony, after I hncl traveled hundreds of miles in quest of them. But the se;-crcst stroke was that inflicted by the persecution, begun and pursued by persons interested in the continuance of the trade, of such witness<:; ~n; l1:1tl bec·1 ex:nnincd against them ; n.nJ. w1IOm, •ill t<<e:;unt of t~lL'ir Jq)C1H1rnt situation jn lifo, .it wns li!O;~t C;L".) to opprcs;:;:. As I had been the means of bringing these forward on these occasions, they natur~ |