Johnny gave a speech to an audience of two-dozen people, but he had not prepared well and the audience did not understand the points he tried to make, According to Jenkin Lloyd Jones, the most unethical part of Johnny's failure to prepare was to waste his

This is math not english

In stockton people love to commit crime it's what we best at doing

The answer is "he was bad enough in all conscience, but the devil himself could not temp him to turn slave-trader. satirical is a synonym for sarcastic. so when the author says that tom walker could not be tempted by the devil he does not literally mean "the devil" but he means that he is too morally upright to become a slave-trader.