But were they prepared to pay the price of their virtue on this great occasion?
This was the question.

If they were, they would do themselves immortal honour, and would have the satisfaction of having done away a commerce, which, while it was productive of misery not to be described, most of all hardened the heart, and vitiated the human character.
With respect to the consequences mentioned by the two members for Liverpool, he had a word or two to offer upon them.

Lord Penrhyn had talked of millions to be lost and paid for.

But seeing no probability of any loss ultimately, he could see no necessity for compensation.

He believed, on the other hand, that the planters would be great gainers by those wholesome regulations, which they would be obliged to make, if the Slave-trade were abolished.