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Show 294 A DAY SPEo<T AT nn industry wldch left 110t n. man, woman, ot· cl,illl in Engl:mJ. uninstructed. In disseminating infor·mation, and in uwnkcning feeling and conscience, the wonwn of England were p::uticular1y carnc~t, and bborcd with that wholc-bcartccl dc,·otion \rhich characterizes the sex. It seems tlmt after the committee had published the facts, nnd sent them to C\·cry town in England, Clarkson followed them up by journeying to all the plnccs, to sec that they "·c,·c read and attended to. Of tl10 state of feeling at this time, Clarkson gives the following account: "And first I ·may observe, that there was no town through which I passed, in which there was not some one indivillual who had left off the usc of sugar. In the smaller towns there were from ten to flCty, by estimation, null in the larger, from two to ft vc hundred, who made this sacrifice to Yirttle. '!.'Lese were of all ranks and parties. Rich and poor, churchmen and dissenters Lad adopted the measure!" Even grocers had left off trading in the m-ticlc in some phccs. In gentlemen'; families, where the master hall set the ex· ample, the servants l1ad often voluntarily followed it; and even children, who were capable of understanding PLAYFORD ilALL. 295 the llistory of the sufl'crings of the African~, excluded with the most virtuous resolution the sweet~, to which they had hecn occustomccl, from their lips. By the best computation I was alJle to make, from notes taken down in my journey, no ft:wer than three hundred tl10usand persons had nbandoncd tl1e usc of sugar." . It was the reality, tleptl1, and carne.<tncEs of the public feeling, thus aroused, which pressed with rc~istlcss force upon the govcmment ; for the government of England yields to popular demands, quite as readily as that of America. After ycar.s of protracted str-uggle, tl1c victory was at last won. 'l.'he slave-trade was finally abolisl1ed tlu·ough all the British empire; and not only so, but the English nation committed, with tl1e wl10lc force of its national influence, to seck the abolition of the slave-trade in all the nations of the earth. But the wave of feeling ditl not rest there; the investigations bad brought before the English conscience the horrors and abominations of slavery itself, and the agitation never ceased till slavery was finally abolished through all tl1e British provinces. At this time the religious mind and conscience of England gained, through this very struggle, a power which it never has lost. Tho |