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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These have been, through life, perpetual admonitions to do nothing unworthy of it.
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.
The question raised by Martin Luther involved the whole theory of the rights of individual man, paramount to all human authority.
The pride of Britain itself must bend to the course of events.
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