And a people which should deliberately, by the organization of its authorized power, deprive itself of the faculty of multiplying its own blessings, would be as wise as a creator who should undertake to constitute a human being without a heart.
Seward warns against limiting the potential for progress and prosperity.
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That freedom and that security required that the nations of Europe should relax their grasp on the American Continent.
Let it be remembered, that it has ever been the pride and the boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature.
From and after the fourth day of July, 1842, there shall be, throughout the United States, NO HEREDITARY SLAVERY, but on and after that day every child born within the United States shall be FREE.
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.
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