If its extensive and fertile fields shall be opened as a market for slaves, the government will seem to become a party to a traffic, which in so many acts, through so many years, it has denounced as impolitic, unchristian, and inhuman....
Lodge warns that opening fertile lands to slavery would implicate the government in a morally reprehensible trade.
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