He asks whether the old Anti-Slavery Society ought to do something about it. He comments that the government could not justly complain that it had been pushed forward into action and then deserted. He prophesies on the future state of Jamaica, the suffering of the plantation owners, and the discouragement for emancipation that would ensue, though he still maintained that they had much to rejoice over in what had been done. He laments what would happen there under the Tories and, after listing the votes of a number of Members of Parliament, suggests that they would have to push through Buxton's slave trade matter under a new Government.