Wherever Slavery prevails, this pretended right is recognized, and generally with an intensity proportioned to the prevalence of Slavery,--as, for instance, in South Carolina and Mississippi more intensely than in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Sumner points out the correlation between the prevalence of slavery and the recognition of the right to secession in different states.
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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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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