It is, however, a notable fact, that, while so much execration is poured out by Americans, upon those engaged in the foreign slave trade, the men engaged in the slave trade between the states pass without condemnation, and their business is deemed honorable.
From his autobiography, Douglass exposes the profound hypocrisy of Americans condemning the foreign slave trade while condoning the domestic one.
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For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.