In no instance has this been verified more than in the case of the Slave-trade.

Never was our national character more tarnished, and our prosperity more clouded by guilt.

Never was there a monster more difficult to subdue.

Even they, who heard as it were the shrieks of oppression, and wished to assist the sufferers, were fearful of joining in their behalf.

While they acknowledged the necessity of removing one evil, they were terrified by the prospect of introducing another; and were therefore only able to relieve their feelings, by lamenting in the bitterness of their hearts, that this traffic had ever been begun at all.
After the death of cardinal Ximenes, the emperor Charles the Fifth, who had come into power, encouraged the Slave-trade.