They had always ships in harbour containing persons, who had a knowledge of the subject.

They had several also from whom to choose.

If one man was favourable to their cause in three of the points belonging to it, but was unfavourable in the fourth, he could be put aside and replaced.
When they had thus selected them, they had not to entreat, but to command, their attendance.

They had no fear, again, when they thus commanded, of a refusal on the ground of interest; because these were promoting their interest by obliging those who employed them.

Viewing these and other circumstances, which might be thrown into this comparative statement, it was some consolation to us to know, amidst the disappointment which this new measure occasioned, and our apparent defeat in the eyes of the public, that we had really beaten our opponents at their own weapons, and that, as this was a victory in our own private feelings, so it was the presage to us of a future triumph.
On the twenty-ninth of May, Mr.Tierney made a motion to divide the consideration of the Slave-trade into two heads, by separating the African from the West Indian part of the question.