Charles Sumner: “The Slave Power will be broken, and Slavery driven from its present intrenchments under the National Government.”

They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.

It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.

Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.

The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.