With respect to the Christian dispensation, it was a libel to say, that it countenanced such a traffic.

It opposed it both in its spirit and in its principle.

Nay, it opposed it positively; for it classed men-stealers, or slave-traders, among the murderers of fathers and mothers and the most profane criminals upon earth.
The antiquity of slavery in Africa, which the noble lord had glanced at, afforded, he said, no argument for its continuance.

Such a mode of defence would prevent for ever the removal of any evil.

It would justify the practice of the Chinese, who exposed their infants in the streets to perish.