16 MAY 1958, Page 11

Tbe *nctator

MAY 18, 1833

THE Ministerial plan for putting an end to slavery is at length fairly before the public; and if we are to believe the West Indian proprietor on the one side, and the ardent Emancipationists on the other, it will prove to be 'a complete failure. That such would be the opinion of the parties we have named, was, long before the appearance of the plan, pre- dicted on the surest grounds. It was evidently im- possible to gratify the prejudices or come up to the mark of the zealots of either party, if justice were to be done to the Negroes themselves, and the dictates of common sense and humanity were to be followed.