They who opposed it well knew that the trade could not bear discussion.

Let it be discussed; and, although there were symptoms of predetermination in some, the abolition of it must be carried.

He would not believe that there could be found in the House of Commons men of such hard hearts and inaccessible understandings, as to vote an assent to its continuance, and then go home to their families, satisfied with their vote, after they had been once made acquainted with the subject.
Mr.Pitt agreed with Mr.Fox, that from a full discussion of the subject there was every reason to augur, that the abolition would be adopted.

Under the imputations, with which this trade was loaded, gentlemen should remember, they could not do justice to their own characters, unless they stood up, and gave their reasons for opposing the abolition of it.

It was unusual also to force any question of such importance to so hasty a decision.