They would have decried the policy of the measure of the abolition; and where had it been proved?
They would have demanded a reverse of it; and might they not in cooler moments have succeeded?
Whereas, by entering into a patient discussion of the merits of the question; by bringing evidence upon it; by reasoning upon that evidence night after night, and year after year, and thus by disputing the ground inch as it were by inch, the abolition of the Slave Trade stands upon a rock, upon which it never can be shaken.

Many of those who were concerned in the cruel system have now given up their prejudices, because they became convinced in the contest.

A stigma too has been fixed upon it, which can never be erased: and in a large record, in which the cruelty and injustice of it have been recognised in indelible characters, its impolicy also has been eternally enrolled..