And here he could not but view with astonishment the reasoning of the West Indian planters, who held up the example of St.Domingo as a warning against the abolition of the Slave-trade; because the continuance of it was one of the great causes of the insurrections and subsequent miseries in that devoted island.

Let us but encourage importations in the same rapid progression of increase every year, which took place in St.
Domingo, and we should witness the same effect in our own islands.
To expose the impolicy of the trade further, he would observe, that it was an allowed axiom, that as the condition of man was improved, he became more useful.

The history of our own country, in very early times, exhibited instances of internal slavery, and this to a considerable extent.

But we should find that precisely in proportion as that slavery was ameliorated, the power and prosperity of the country flourished.

This was exactly applicable to the case in question.