It would in the end be found serviceable to all parties; and to the best interests of the country.

He did not come forward to accuse the West India planter, or the Liverpool merchant, or indeed any one concerned in this traffic; but, if blame attached any where, to take shame to himself, in common indeed with the whole parliament of Great Britain, who, having suffered it to be carried on under their own authority, were all of them participators in the guilt.
In endeavouring to explain the great business of the day, he said he should call the attention of the house only to the leading features of the Slave-trade.

Nor should he dwell long upon these.

Every one might imagine for himself, what must be the natural consequence of such a commerce with Africa.

Was it not plain that she must suffer from it?
that her savage manners must be rendered still more ferocious?
and that a trade of this nature, carried on round her coasts, must extend violence and desolation to her very centre?
It was well known that the natives of Africa were sold as goods, and that numbers of them were continually conveyed away from their country by the owners of British vessels.