Africa was not to be sacrificed to the apparent good of the West-Indies.

He would not repeat those enormities out of the evidence, which had made such a deep impression upon the House.

It had been resolved, that the trade should be abolished.

The question then was, how long they were to persevere in the crime of its continuance.

One had said, that they might be unjust for ten years longer; another, only till the beginning of the next century.