If the execrations of mankind are yet too feeble and too few to punish Great Britain for her wickedness, what scope, what fulness, what eternity of execration and anathema will be a sufficient retribution upon us, if we volunteer to copy her example?
He expresses concern about the moral consequences of emulating Britain's slave practices.
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The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
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