THE UTTER EXTINCTION OF SLAVERY AN OBJECT OF SCRIPTURE PROPHECY: A LECTURE 72799 THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH WAS DELIVERED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CHELMSFORD LADIES' ANTI-SLAVERY ASSOCIATION, IN THE FRIEND'S MEETING-HOUSE, ON TUESDAY, THE 17TH OF APRIL, 1832: WILLIAM KNIGHT, ESQ. TREASURER, IN THE CHAIR. With Elucidatory Notes. BY JOSEPH IVIMEY, A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. SOLD BY G. WIGHTMAN, PATERNOSTER ROW; MESSRS. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; MESSRS. SEELEY, FLEET STREET; HOLDSWORTH AND BALL, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD; WESTLEY AND CO. STATIONERS' COURT; MASON, CITY ROAD, AND PATERNOSTER ROW; DARTON AND HARVEY, GRACECHURCH STREET; J. W. CALDER, OXFORD STREET; AND AT THE BOOK ROOM, IN EXETER HALL. 1832. ΤΟ WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ. SIR, AFTER the uniform testimony of the. world has been borne, for many years past, to your philanthrophy toward those unhappy beings, who are, in common parlance, designated slaves; in consequence of your having procured the abolition of the "TRADE in the persons of men," which had, for nearly three centuries, been the foul disgrace of the British nation; it cannot be deemed flattery, that I have presumed to dedicate this Lecture to you: and which I do with feelings of the most profound respect and veneration. To you, Sir, belong the highest honour, and the most refined and exalted pleasure, which ever any man appropriated to himself:—“ And when the ear heard me," said the God-fearing, most upright, and deeply-afflicted Job, “then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to |