The present resolution would do no good.

It was vague, indefinite, and unintelligible.

Such resolutions were only the Slave-merchants' harvests.

They would go for more slaves than usual in the interim.

He should have advised a system of duties on fresh importations of slaves, progressively increasing to a certain extent; and that the amount of these duties should be given to the planters, as a bounty to encourage the Negro-population upon their estates.
Nothing could be done, unless we went hand in hand with the latter.