These walls, which were consecrated, so long ago, to the cause of American liberty, which witnessed her infant struggles and rung with the shouts of her earliest victories, proclaim now, that distinguished friends and champions of that great cause have fallen.
Seward reflects on the significance of the hall where the eulogy is delivered, emphasizing its historical importance to American liberty.
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Stoicism, that had no charity for error, never converted any human society to virtue; Christianity, that remembers the true nature of man, has encompassed a large portion of the globe.
That freedom and that security required that the nations of Europe should relax their grasp on the American Continent.
For the rest, the work of emancipation abides the action, whether it be slow or fast, of the moral sense of the American people.
How long emancipation may be delayed, is among the things concealed from our knowledge, but not so the certain result.
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