It is vain to say, as has been said, that the slaves are few,--amounting to fourteen only in New Mexico; for human rights, whether in a vast multitude or a solitary individual, are entitled to equal and unhesitating support.
Sumner asserts that all human rights deserve equal protection, regardless of the number of individuals affected.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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.
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