He brought all his experience with slaves to his aid.

If the feeling shown in this instance were assumed, the acting was perfect; on the other hand, if it were real, the Jew's innocence might not be doubted; and if he were innocent, with what blind fury the power had been exercised! A whole family blotted out to atone an accident! The thought shocked him.
There is no wiser providence than that our occupations, however rude or bloody, cannot wear us out morally; that such qualities as justice and mercy, if they really possess us, continue to live on under them, like flowers under the snow.

The tribune could be inexorable, else he had not been fit for the usages of his calling; he could also be just; and to excite his sense of wrong was to put him in the way to right the wrong.

The crews of the ships in which he served came after a time to speak of him as the good tribune.

Shrewd readers will not want a better definition of his character.
In this instance there were many circumstances certainly in the young man's favor, and some to be supposed.