Yes, you may speak of Slavery, if you will defend it; you may preach about it, if you shingle its roof with Scripture texts; but you may not talk, nor preach, nor print abolition doctrines, though you believe them with the intensity of inspiration!
He highlights the hypocrisy of justifying slavery while silencing abolitionist views, showcasing the moral conflict of the time.
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But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.
And now it has come to pass that, in the good providence of God, another opportunity has been presented to the whole North to reassert her place and her influence, and to fill the institutions of our country with their original and proper…
I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.
And the theory of man is always the starting point of all other theories, systems, and Governments which divide the world.