But Slavery throughout the country, everywhere within the national limits, is a living Unit, one and indivisible,--and thus even outside the Rebel States it is the same public enemy and traitor, lending succor to the Rebellion, and holding out “blue lights” to encourage and direct its operations.
Sumner argues that slavery is a unified threat to the nation, even beyond the Rebel States.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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