Where slavery existed, every thing was out of its natural place.

All improvement was at an end.

There must also, from the nature of the human heart, be oppression.
He warned the planters against the danger of fresh importations, and invited their concurrence in the measure.
Mr.Dundas (now Lord Melville) declared, that he had always been a warm friend to the abolition of the Slave-trade, though he differed with Mr.
Wilberforce as to the mode of effecting it.
The abolitionists, and those on the opposite side of the question, had, both of them, gone into extremes.

The former were for the immediate and abrupt annihilation of the trade.

The latter considered it as essentially necessary to the existence of the West Indian islands, and therefore laid it down, that it was to be continued for ever.