While this nation is guilty of the enslavement of three millions of innocent men and women, it is as idle to think of having a sound and lasting peace, as it is to think there is no God to take cognizance of the affairs of men.
Douglass asserts that true and lasting peace for the nation is impossible as long as the institution of slavery persists.
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