Think of the membership of slaves in Christian Churches; of the multitudes of them who have died in the faith and hope of the Gospel.

Slavery has done this.

The question is whether slavery has been, or is, such a curse, on the whole, to the African race, that we must now set free the whole colored population?
Please let us keep to the point.

The reopening of the slave-trade is a question by itself.
"It seems that God had chosen to redeem and save large numbers of the African race by having them transported to this Christian land.
Philanthropists would not be at the cost and trouble of all this.

God has, therefore, used the cupidity of men to accomplish his purposes, and he punishes the wicked agents of his own benevolent schemes.