I had then just signed with my own hand a treaty declaring 'the traffic in slaves (not the African slave-trade, but THE TRAFFIC IN SLAVES) unjust and inhuman,' and in which both nations engaged to do all in their power to suppress it.
Quincy reflects on his commitment to opposing the slave trade through a treaty he signed.
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No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
With a tolerable share of common sense, I hope, in America, to be independent and free.
He considered himself placed between two batteries, neither of which regarded him as one of their soldiers.
Rather than live otherwise, I would wish to die before my time.
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