Star.
London, England, 1826-06-10 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS AND PEOPLE OF TILE
UNITED KINGDOM.

My FZI.LOW COUNTRY/UN,
PARLIAMENT has been dissolved. Yon are there-
fore now employed. or about to be employed, In Electing
your Representatives in the House of Consouna. Let one of
your ant questions to every candidate be, Are you a Proprietor
of Slaves, or a West India merchant ? It tho auseure le In the
Arnaarive, I would recommend to you a positive refusal, unless
ht be one of the very few who have already proved themselves
true friumls to our cause ; or who, being known to you via man
of probity and honour, will give you thr security of ids promise
henceforth to support it in the House. But whoever the Candidate
may be, demand of him, u the condition of your support, that he
will solemnly pledge himself to attend in his place, whenever any
measure is brought forward for the mitigation and progressive tub
wination of Slavery by Parliamentary enactments ; and that he
will give his Vote for every measure of that kind. not inconsistent
with the spirit of the Resolutions of May, Inn, mad the reams.
undations of his Majesty's Government founded en those Rua
14tions. Unless such a pledge Is given in these, or equivalent terms,
and more especially so as to exclude the subterfuge of still com-
mitting the work to the Assemblies, the enpgement will be of
little value, or rather of none at all. Add to this right use of your
non Vote the widest and most active influence with your brother
tkctors, to engage them to follow your example.
I cannot promise, my countrymen, that by such mains your
generous wishes will be fully and certainly accomplished; but one
v:4l at least, and an inestimable one, you will be sure to obtain.
lou will deliver your own consciences from any participation in
tic guilt which you have used your best endeavours to restrain:
I call upon you then solemnly, as fellow-Countrymen and fellow-
Christians, to exert yourselves to the utmost on this Brest and
.r.terestlng occasion. If you would prevent further sacrilege at
our manufacturing, commercial, and maritime interests, et your
t:venues and military mans, and of the security even et your
Colonies themselves ; if you would maintain the independence and
4ztity of your Parliament, and its Constitutional supremacy over
the distant dependencies of the Empire, without which they are a
degrading incumbrance and a nuisance; if yen would redeem the
,cared pledges you have given to the unfortunate Slaves, and pre.
rent the perpetuation on them and their human offepring of a
bondage disgraceful to the British and the Christian name; and if
you would rescue yourselves from the abhorred neeeedty of in-
kiting your hands in their blood, when and as often as intolerable
oppression urges them to a hopeless resistance—new, sow, is your
time to be active. Your Consdnitional and effectual path is plait
refer, you.

Let not 1.4 man who fears Goo, or loves his cessory and his
ftllow.ereatures, think that this is a case in which he can warrant.
ably be neutral or passive. It might be so ender as arbitrary fens
of Government; bet every man • In the free cesitrp who has a
volt or a voice that can influence the Electors or Elected, hes, in
t.uss like the present, a consciendoes duty to perform, for the
Arglect of which he will be justly and eernody responsible. Every
decree of each Mum* that we possess is pa airily a privilege,
but a trusts and the laws needs or maintained by the Representa-
tives of a free people are virtually of their own enactment.
Dismiss the idle hope that Slavery will ever be abolished, or
materially alleviated, by the will of the masters, or by the laws.'
',Vest India 7411611it0n. It must be dome, if done a• all, by Per-
I amentary authority.

rome forward then with your exertions on this ocpshrn—lu.
yuar itepresentativos—gice or nithboki your affrays for
the next Parliament—end nee yaw perseoal baronet throogisoot
the country--411 in sods a mares as may best promote the success
of this great and sacred cause.

If you succeed, you will give a new triumph to the British Con-
stitution, you will exalt the glory of your country, in that best
point, her moral ekvation, and recommend her to the favour of
heaven.—lf you fail, you will at last have the inestimable con-
solation that you bare done what you could 4 to nabs the heavy
ortben, and to let the oppressed go free," and that the sins and
calamities of your country, however pernicious In their cense-
-peaces to yourselves or your children, were evils which you could
.-ot avert.