The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860
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He was opposed by the Duke ofClarence, who directed his remarks chiefly to a defence of the generalhumanity of the planters; and by Lord Westmoreland, who, in a speech ofsingular intemperance, denounced the principle of the measure, as oneafter the passing of which "no property could be rendered safe whichcould fall within the power of the Legislature. " He even made it anargument against the bill that its principle, if carried to itslegitimate logical end, must tend to the abolition of slavery... as well asof the slave-trade. He objected especially to the assertion in thepreamble that the trade was "contrary to justice and humanity, "declaring that those words were only inserted in the hope that by them"foreign powers might be humbugged into a concurrence with theabolition, " and wound up his harangue by a declaration that, though heshould "see the Presbyterian and the prelate, the Methodist andpew-preacher, the Jacobin and the murderer, unite in support of it, hewould still raise his voice against it.
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