The grounds for the attainment of this end were distinctly stated in the propositions.

Let the propositions be brought before the house, one by one, and argued from the evidence; and it would then be seen, that they were such as no one, who was not deaf to the language of reason, could deny.

Let them be once entered upon the journals of that house, and it was almost impossible they should fail.

The abolition must be voted.

As to the mode of it, or how it should be effected, they were not at present to discuss it; but he trusted it would be such, as would not invite foreign powers to supply our islands with slaves by a clandestine trade.