He wondered how the last speaker could have had the boldness to draw arguments from scripture in support of the Slave-trade.
Such arguments could be intended only to impose on those, who never took the trouble of thinking for themselves.

Could it be thought for a moment, that the good sense of the House could be misled by a few perverted or misapplied passages, in direct opposition to the whole tenor and spirit of Christianity; to the theory, he might say, of almost every religion, which had ever appeared in the world?
Whatever might have been advanced, every body must feel, that the Slave-trade could not exist an hour, if that excellent maxim, "to do to others as we would wish that others should do to us," had its proper influence on the conduct of men.
Nor was Mr.Stanley more happy in his argument of the antiquity and universality of slavery.

Because a practice had existed, did it necessarily follow that it was just?
By this argument every crime might be defended from the time of Cain.

The slaves of antiquity, however, were in a situation far preferable to that of the Negros in the West Indies.

A passage in Macrobius, which exemplified this in the strongest manner, was now brought to his recollection.