[The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) by Thomas Clarkson]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) CHAPTER IV 74/124
What was the inference from this moderate assertion, but that we might as well supply them ourselves? He hoped, if we were yet to be supplied, it would never be by Englishmen.
We ought no longer to be concerned in such a crime. An adversary, Mr.Baillie, had said, that it would not be fair to take the character of this country from the records of the Old Bailey.
He did not at all wonder, when the subject of the Slave-trade was mentioned, that the Old Bailey naturally occurred to his recollection.
The facts which had been described in the evidence, were associated in all our minds with the ideas of criminal justice.
But Mr.Baillie had forgot the essential difference between the two cases.
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