Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.
Nations cannot endure in sin.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.