He conceived that their design, while it would destroy the Slave Trade, would also strike at the root of the shocking abomination of slavery also.

He desired to forewarn them that they must expect difficulties and great opposition from those who were interested in the system; that these were a powerful body; and that they would raise all their forces, when they perceived their craft to be in danger.

They would employ hireling writers, who would have neither justice nor mercy.
But the committee were not to be dismayed by such treatment, nor even if some of those who professed goodwill towards them, should turn against them.

As for himself, he would do all he could to promote the object of their institution.

He would reprint a new and large edition of his _Thought on Slavery_, and circulate it among his friends in England and Ireland, to whom he would add a few words in favour of their design.