Setting out the reasons underlying his actions, which emanate from his intense hatred of the slave system and his awareness of his responsibility towards a large section of the public who support abolition, as well as his responsibility towards the enslaved people themselves, who have no means of making their views heard. He adds that he can never put his own interests before theirs since they are so powerless, and he is therefore determined, for their sake, to bring on his motion [for the immediate abolition of slavery]. (Copy.) (Memoir, p. 288.)