It was sufficient for every purpose of crimination, to assert, that man thereby was bought and sold, or that he was made subject to the despotism of man.

But though he thus acknowledged the justice due to a whole continent on the one side, he confessed there were opposing claims of justice on the other.

The case of the West Indians deserved a tender consideration also.
He doubted, if we were to relinquish the Slave-trade alone, whether it might not be carried on still more barbarously than at present; and whether, if we were to stop it altogether, the islands could keep up their present stocks.

It had been asserted that they could.

But he thought that the stopping of the importations could not be depended upon for this purpose, so much as a plan for providing them with more females.
With the mode suggested by his right honourable friend, Mr.Dundas, he was pleased, though he did not wholly agree to it.