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Grosvenor then rose. He complimented the humanity of Mr. Wilberforce, though he differed from him on the subject of his motion. He himself hadread only the privy council report; and he wished for no other evidence. The question had then been delayed two years. Had the abolition been soclear a point as it was said to be, it could not have needed either so muchevidence or time. He had heard a good deal about kidnapping and other barbarous practices. Hewas sorry for them. But these were the natura...l consequences of the laws ofAfrica; and it became us as wise men to turn them to our own advantage. TheSlave-trade was certainly not an amiable trade. Neither was that of abutcher; but yet it was a very necessary one. There was great reason to doubt the propriety of the present motion. He hadtwenty reasons for disapproving it. The first was, that the thing wasimpossible. He needed not therefore to give the rest. Parliament, indeed, might relinquish the trade. But to whom? To foreigners, who would continueit, and without the humane regulations, which were applied to it by hiscountry-men.
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