If we wished to prevent similar scenes in our own islands, we must reject all moderate measures, and at once abolish the Slave-trade.

By doing this, we should procure a better treatment for the Slaves there; and when this happy change of system should have taken place, we might depend on them for the defence of the islands as much as on the Whites themselves.
Upon the whole, he would give his opinion of this traffic in a few words.
He believed it to be impolitic--he knew it to be inhuman--he was certain it was unjust--he though it so inhuman and unjust, that, if the colonies could not be cultivated without it, they ought not to be cultivated at all.

It would be much better for us to be without them, than not abolish the Slave-trade.

He hoped therefore that members would this night act the part which would do them honour.

He declared, that, whether he should vote in a large minority or a small one, he would never give up the cause.