Charles Sumner: “Gradual change is a necessary condition of the Law of Progress.”

This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.

Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!

It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.

I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.