It is this proposition I am anxious to effect; but I wish to effect it by some COMPACT which shall be binding upon all parties and all subsequent Legislatures,--which cannot be changed, and will not fluctuate with the diversity of feeling and of sentiment to which this empire, in its march, must be destined.
Sumner expresses his desire for a binding compact to ensure stability in legislative decisions regarding slavery.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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