Excerpt from Anti-Slavery, Vol. 3: Monthly Reporter; Commencing June 1829, and Ending December 1830 We respect the motives which have influenced Mr; Otway Cave on this occasion. We must still however think the course he has pursued unfortunate, and the time ill chesen. Who could ever have supposed it possible, that after a session of four months' duration, a motion of whieh'formal notice had been given in the preceding session, a motion too of such vital importance, and big with so many vital interests, would at last have been shuffled into a corner; that at the unseasonable hour of one o'clock in the morning, on almost the last day of the session, when no rational hope could'be entertained of -a beneficial discussion or a favourable result, when the House had been nearly emptied, reso lutions so momentous, and so sure to be opposed, ' should have been brought forward and attempted to be passed? Such a course was hardly fair either to the friends or the Opponents of our cause; and not even dreaming that such a thing was within the verge of possibility, almost every individual who felt an interest in the question had with drawn; though, had they remained, they could only have used their influence to induce the mover to select a fitter time for his propositions, to which, independently of this circumstance, we ourselves could not but be favourable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.