How was it ever to be eradicated, if every nation was thus prudentially to wait till the concurrence of all the world should be obtained?
But it applied a thousand times more strongly in a contrary way.

How much more justly would other nations say, "Great Britain, free as she is, just and honourable as she is, not only has not abolished, but has refused to abolish, the Slave-trade.

She has investigated it well.

Her senate has deliberated upon it.

It is plain, then, that she sees no guilt in it." With this argument we should furnish the other nations of Europe, if we were again to refuse to put an end to this cruel traffic: and we should have from henceforth not only to answer for our own, but for their crimes also.