[The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) by Thomas Clarkson]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) CHAPTER III 93/159
Other nations would take up the trade.
Whenever a bill of wise regulation should be brought forward, no man would be more ready than himself to lend his support.
In this way the rights of humanity might be asserted without injury to others.
He hoped he should not incur censure by his vote; for, let his understanding be what it might, he did not know that he had, notwithstanding the assertions of Mr.Fox, an inaccessible heart. Mr.Stanley (agent for the islands) rose next.
He felt himself called upon, he said, to refute the many calumnies, which had for years been propagated against the planters, (even through the medium of the pulpit, which should have been employed to better purposes,) and which had at length produced the mischievous measure, which was now under the discussion of the House.
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