The Planters were, by these importations, creating the engines of their own destruction.
Surely they would act more to their own interest, if they would concur in extinguishing the trade, than by standing up for its continuance.
He would now ask them, what right they had to suppose that Africa would for ever remain in a state of barbarism.

If once an enlightened prince were to rise up there, his first act would be to annihilate the Slave-trade.

If the light of heaven were ever to descend upon that continent, it would directly occasion its downfall.

It was their interest then to contrive a mode of supplying labour, without trusting to precarious importations from that quarter.

They might rest assured that the trade could not continue.