If, by virtue of the judgment, the slave-owners have an interest in the imprisonment of these men which cannot be touched, then the prisoners, unable to meet these heavy liabilities, must continue in perpetual imprisonment, or owe their release to the accident of private good-will.
This statement highlights the dire consequences for prisoners if their release depends on the goodwill of slave-owners.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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