There can be no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” Suppose it were possible to put down this discussion, what would it avail the guilty slaveholder, pillowed as he is upon heaving bosoms of ruined souls?
He reflects on the futility of silencing discussions about slavery for those who are guilty of it.
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He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.