When a community of States, by the most potential voice of Law, says to the whole body of its laboring population, Ye are not men and shall not be; ye are chattels--it is absurd to speak about kind treatment--about happiness.
Beecher asserts that laws denying the humanity of laborers make discussions of kindness and happiness absurd.
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An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!
If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.
These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.
And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.