The whole of these have been discussed and summarized by Mr.W.J.Law, and as it appears to me that his arguments are quite conclusive I have adopted the line which he lays down as that followed by Hannibal.
In regard to the general history of the expedition, and of the manners, customs, religion, and politics of Carthage, I have followed M.
Hennebert in his most exhaustive and important work on the subject.

I think that when you have read to the end you will perceive that although our sympathies may remain with Hannibal and the Carthaginians, it was nevertheless for the good of the world that Rome was the conqueror in the great struggle for empire.

At the time the war began Carthage was already corrupt to the core, and although she might have enslaved many nations she would never have civilized them.

Rome gave free institutions to the people she conquered, she subdued but she never enslaved them, but rather strove to plant her civilization among them and to raise them to her own level.

Carthage, on the contrary, was from the first a cruel mistress to the people she conquered.