If men cannot afford to be decent, they ought to suspect the justice of their cause, or at least the motives with which they sustain it; but our Slave-Masters, not seeing the indecency of their conduct, know not their losses.
He critiques the lack of decency among slaveholders, suggesting that their inability to recognize their own indecency reflects poorly on their cause.
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