If I continue to unfold this strange, eventful story, it will be to exhibit the direct and constant intervention of Congress for the ransom of slaves; but the story itself is an argument against Slavery, pertinent to the present occasion, which I am not unwilling to adopt.
Sumner indicates that the story of Congress's intervention for the ransom of slaves serves as a powerful argument against slavery itself.
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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.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
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.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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