They had been described as founded on policy, in opposition to humanity.

If it could be made out that humanity would be aided by the abolition, he would be the last person to oppose it.

The question was not, he apprehended, whether the trade was founded in injustice and oppression.

He admitted it was: nor was it, whether it was in itself abstractedly an evil: he admitted this also: but whether, under all the circumstances of the case, any considerable advantage would arise to a number of our fellow-creatures from the abolition of the trade in the manner in which it had been proposed.
He was ready to admit, that the Africans at home were made miserable by the Slave-trade, and that, if it were universally abolished, great benefit would arise to them.

No one, however, would assert, that these miseries arose from the trade as carried on by Great Britain only.