You have devoted the energies of a mind unperverted, the learning and experience acquired through more than sixty years, and even the influence and fame derived from your high career of public service, to the great cause of universal liberty.
Seward highlights the dedication and experience of John Quincy Adams in advocating for universal 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.
But power, confessedly derived from the people, must be exercised in obedience to their will, and must be resigned to them again, at least in death.
For the rest, the work of emancipation abides the action, whether it be slow or fast, of the moral sense of the American people.
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