He should then be educated at the expense of the person importing his parents; and, when arrived at such a degree of strength as might qualify him to labour, he should work for a term of years for the payment of the expense of his education and maintenance.

It was impossible to emancipate the existing slaves at once; nor would such an emancipation be of any immediate benefit to themselves: but this observation would not apply to their descendants, if trained and educated in the manner he had proposed.
He would now address himself to those who adopted the opposite extreme: and he thought he should not assume too much, when he said, that if both slavery and the Slave-trade could be abolished with safety to their property, it deeply concerned their interests to do it.

Such a measure, also, would only be consistent with the principles of the British Constitution.

It was surely strange that we, who were ourselves free, should carry on a Slave-trade with Africa; and that we should never think of introducing cultivation into the West Indies by free labourers.
That such a measure would tend to their interest he had no doubt.

Did not all of them agree with Mr.Long, that the great danger in the West Indies arose from the importation of the African slaves there?
Mr.Long had asserted, that all the insurrections there arose from these.