The grand secret of its power is, that each of its principles is easily rendered appreciable to the faculty of reason in man, and that the most unenlightened conscience has no difficulty in deciding on which side to register its testimony.
Douglass explains that the anti-slavery cause derives its strength from principles that are readily understood by human reason and conscience.
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