The committee, for the abolition, when the work was finished, printed it at their own expense.

Mr.Wilberforce then presented it to the House of Commons, as a faithful abridgement of the whole evidence.

Having been received as such under the guarantee of Mr.Montagu and Mr.Eliott, the committee sent it to every individual member of that House.
The book having been thus presented, and a day fixed for the final determination of the question, our feelings became almost insupportable: for we had the mortification to find, that our cause was going down in estimation, where it was then most important that it should have increased in favour.

Our opponents had taken advantage of the long delay, which the examination of evidence had occasioned, to prejudice the minds of many of the members of the House of Commons against us.

The old arguments of emancipation, massacre, ruin, and indemnification, had been kept up; but, as the day of final decision approached, they had been increased.