On the record
The development of the moral principle which pronounced slavery a crime of man against his brother-man had not yet reached the conscience of Christendom.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Quincy points out that the moral condemnation of slavery had not yet fully influenced the conscience of the Western world.
Share
More from Josiah Quincy
I am determined to get my own living, and to be dependent upon no one.
The rigor of her system already begins to relax, and one year of war to her and peace to us will be more favorable to our interests, and to the final establishment of our principles, than could possibly be effected by twenty years of…
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.
Rather than live otherwise, I would wish to die before my time.
Other voices in this conversation
