The perils of the enterprize are already passed--its difficulties have already been removed--when it shall have been accomplished it will be justly regarded as the last noble effort which rendered the Republic imperishable.
Seward expresses confidence that the successful completion of emancipation will be seen as a noble effort for the Republic.
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It depends not on the zeal and firmness only of the reformers, but on their wisdom and moderation also.
By the blessing of the Author of those rights, they have prevailed over all opposition, and form the basis of thirteen independent States.
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.
How long emancipation may be delayed, is among the things concealed from our knowledge, but not so the certain result.
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