Was he then asking too much of the West Indians, to request a candid consideration of the real ground of their alarms?
He would conclude by stating, that he meant to propose a middle way of proceeding.

If there was a number of members in the House, who thought with him, that this trade ought to be ultimately abolished, but yet by moderate measures, which should neither invade the property nor the prejudices of individuals; he wished them to unite, and they might then reduce the question to its proper limits.
Mr.Addington (the speaker) professed himself to be one of those moderate persons called upon by Mr.Dundas.He wished to see some middle measure suggested.

The fear of doing injury to the property of others, had hitherto prevented him from giving an opinion against a system, the continuance of which he could not countenance.
He utterly abhorred the Slave-trade.

A noble and learned lord, who had now retired from the bench, said on a certain occasion, that he pitied the loyalty of that man, who imagined that any epithet could aggravate the crime of treason.

So he himself knew of no language which could aggravate the crime of the Slave-trade.