In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

The sentence frames an anti-slavery moral stance in explicitly Christian-ethical terms: one should oppose human bondage while refusing personal hatred toward individual slaveholders. By pairing “no malice” with “compassionating those who hold in bondage,” it suggests that participation in slavery is not only a political wrong but also a spiritual and moral blindness (“not knowing what they do”), echoing the Gospel language of forgiveness. The rhetoric aims to keep reform grounded in universal charity rather than vengeance, implying that the struggle against slavery should seek moral awakening and repentance as well as legal change.