Is it not enough that, by the operation of this radical iniquity in the organization of the government, an immense disproportion of all offices, from the highest to the lowest, civil, military, naval, executive, and judicial, are held by slaveholders?
Quincy highlights the disproportionate power held by slaveholders in government positions, critiquing systemic inequality.
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The charge, therefore, that our government did really give up that important territory, when it was at its option to retain it, is purely and unqualifiedly untrue; and I now charge that it was known by Mr.
May the Ruler of the universe preserve you from such degradation! 'Freedom!
He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.
Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.
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