Place only before the most determined advocate of this odious traffic the exact image of himself in the garb and harness of a slave, dragged and whipped about like a beast: place this image also before him, and paint it as that of one without a ray of hope to cheer him; and you would extort from him the reluctant confession, that he would not endure for an hour the misery, to which he condemned his fellow-man for life.

How dared he then to use this selfish plea of interest against the voice of the generous sympathies of his nature?
But even upon this narrow ground the advocates for the traffic had been defeated.

If the unhallowed argument of expediency was worth any thing when opposed to moral rectitude, or if it were to supersede the precepts of Christianity, where was a man to stop, or what line was he to draw?
For any thing he knew, it might be physically true, that human blood was the best manure for the land; but who ought to shed it on that account?
True expediency, however, was, where it ever would be found, on the side of that system, which was most merciful and just.

He asked how it happened, that sugar could be imported cheaper from the East Indies, than from the West, notwithstanding the vast difference of the length of the voyages, but on account of the impolicy of slavery, or that it was made in the former case by the industry of free men, and in the latter by the languid drudgery of slaves.
As he had had occasion to advert to the Eastern part of the world, he would make an observation upon an argument, which had been collected from that quarter.

The condition of the Negros in the West Indies had been lately compared with that of the Hindoos.