This would have produced a new Union of thirteen or fourteen states unpolluted with slavery, with a great and glorious object, that of rallying to their standard the other states, by the universal emancipation of their slaves.
Quincy envisions a potential new Union formed by states free from slavery, advocating for universal emancipation.
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Have we not tamely submitted for years to the daily violation of the freedom of the post-office and of the press by a committee of seal-breakers?
I have no doubt our citizens will rally a second time round the standard of Common Sense.
These have been, through life, perpetual admonitions to do nothing unworthy of it.
No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
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