Question

Which word best describes how the author ironically portrays Mr.Symmes in this line?
So spoke this poor, heathenish Kentuckian, who had not been instructed in his constitutional relations, and consequently was betrayed into acting in a sort of Christianized manner, which, if he had been better situated and more enlightened, he would not have been left to do.
contemptuously
condescendingly
empathetically
sympathetically