The arbitrary power, which it conferred, afforded men of bad dispositions full scope for the exercise of their passions; and it rendered men, constitutionally of good dispositions, callous to the misery of others.

Thus it depraved the nature of all, who were connected with it.

These considerations had made him a friend to the abolition from the time he was capable of reasoning upon it.

They were considerations also, which determined the House in the year 1782 to adopt a measure of the same kind as the present.

Had any thing happened to change the opinion of members since?
On the contrary, they had now the clearest evidence, that all the arguments then used against the abolition were fallacious; being founded not upon truth, but on assertions devoid of all truth, and derived from ignorance or prejudice.
Having made these remarks, he proved by a number of facts the folly of the argument, that the Africans laboured under such a total degradation of mental and moral faculties, that they were made for slavery.
He then entered into the great subject of population.