And have we not seen a sworn Postmaster-general formally avow that, though he could not license this cut-purse protection of the peculiar institution, the perpetrators of this highway robbery must justify themselves by the plea of necessity?
Quincy highlights the hypocrisy of a Postmaster-general who acknowledges the wrongs of slavery but does not act against them.
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But, if we go to war, what must be the effect of the peace that follows?
If there is a Bostonian who ever sailed from his own harbor for distant lands, or returned to it from them, without feelings, at the sight of the Blue Hills, which he is unable to express, his heart is differently constituted from mine.
But the first principles of morals and politics, which have long been settled, acquire the authority of self-evident truths, which, when first discussed, may have been vehemently and portentously contested.
This rendered it more unavoidable that the remainder of the continent should ultimately be ours.
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