Such a measure, if realized, would not only lessen the quantity of human suffering, but annihilate a powerful political argument against us.

He had a conference therefore with the committee on this subject; and, as they accorded with his opinion, they united with him in writing a letter to me, to know if I would change my journey, and proceed to France.
As I had no object in view but the good of the cause, it was immaterial to me where I went, if I could but serve it; and therefore, without any further delay, I returned to London.
As accounts had arrived in England of the excesses which had taken place in the city of Paris, and of the agitated state of the provinces through which I was to pass, I was desired by several of my friends to change my name.

To this I could not consent; and, on consulting the committee, they were decidedly against it.
I was introduced as quickly as possible, on my arrival at Paris, to the friends of the cause there, to the Duke de la Rochefoucald, the Marquis de Condorcet, Messieurs Petion de Villeneuve, Claviere, and Brissot, and to the Marquis de la Fayette.

The latter received me with peculiar marks of attention.

He had long felt for the wrongs of Africa, and had done much to prevent them.