They would have decried the policy of the measure of the abolition;--and where had it been proved?
They would have demanded a reverse of it; and might they not, in cooler moments, have succeeded?
Whereas, by entering into a patient discussion of the merits of the question; by bringing evidence upon it; by reasoning upon that evidence night after night, and year after year, land thus by disputing the ground inch as it were by inch, the Abolition of the Slave-trade stands upon a rock, upon which it never can be shaken.

Many of those who were concerned in the cruel system have now given up their prejudices, because they became convinced in the contest.

A stigma too has been fixed upon it, which can never be erased: and in a large record, in which the cruelty and injustice of it have been recognised in indelible characters, its impolicy also has been eternally enrolled..