O, how accursed is that system, which entombs the godlike mind of man, defaces the divine image, reduces those who by creation were crowned with glory and honor to a level with four-footed beasts, and exalts the dealer in human flesh above all that is called God!
He condemns the dehumanizing effects of slavery, which he believes corrupts both the enslaved and the enslavers.
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The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.