To our own country, indeed, it is invaluable.

We have lived, in consequence of it, to see the day, when it has been recorded as a principle in our legislation, that commerce itself shall have its moral boundaries.

We have lived to see the day, when we are likely to be delivered from the contagion of the most barbarous opinions.

They, who supported this wicked traffic, virtually denied, that man was a moral being.

They substituted the law of force for the law of reason.