But dinner is ready, captain; if you wish to argue the matter further, it must be over a bottle of claret." The dinner was well dressed, and the Madeira and claret (the only wines produced) of the best quality.

Their host did the honours of his table with true West Indian hospitality, circulating the bottle after dinner with a rapidity which would soon have produced an effect upon less prudent visitors; and when Mr Berecroft refused to take any more wine, he ordered the ingredients for arrack punch.
"Now, Mr Forster, you must take a tumbler of this, and I think that you'll pronounce it excellent." "Indeed!------" replied Newton.
"Nay, I will take no denial; don't be afraid; you may do anything you please in this climate, only be temperate, and don't check the perspiration." "Well, but," observed Newton, who placed the tumbler of punch before him.

"You promised to renew your argument after dinner; and I should like to hear what you have to urge in defence of a system which I never have heard defended before." "Well," replied his host, upon whom the wine and punch had begun to take effect, "just let me fill my tumbler again to keep my lips moist, and then I'll prove to you that slavery has existed from the earliest times, and is not at variance with the religion we profess.

That it has existed from the earliest times, you need only refer to the book of Genesis; and that it is not at variance with our religion, I must refer to the fourth Commandment.

How can that part of the commandment be construed, 'and the stranger that is within thy gates'?
To whom can this possibly apply but to the slave?
After directing that the labour of all the household, 'man-servant and maid-servant,' should cease, it then proceeds to the ox and the ass, and the stranger that is within thy gates.