The witnesses, on the other hand, who came up in favour of the abolition, had no advantage in making their several assertions. In some instances they came up against their apparent interest, and, to my civ iv: colonization, suffered persecution for so doing. The evidence also which they delivered was of a positive nature. Engraved there in affirmative characters, a few of them were of more value than all the negative and airy testimony which had been advanced on the other side of the question. That the public may judge, in some measure, of the respectability of the witnesses in favour of the abolition, and that they may know also to whom Civ iv: colonization is so much indebted for her deliverance, I shall subjoin their names in the three following lists. The evidence having been delivered civ iv: colonization both sides, and then printed, it was judged expedient by Mr.