I do not wish for a moment to detract from the horror with which the evil of intemperance is contemplated—not at all; nor do I wish to throw the slightest obstruction in the way of any political freedom that any class of persons in this country may desire to obtain.
Douglass clarifies that he does not wish to diminish the seriousness of other social issues while discussing slavery.
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It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.