Innocent and unoffending men were murdered in cold blood, houses were consumed with fire, hamlets laid in smoking ruins, homeless and houseless innocents, women and tender children, were driven forth, exposed to the winds and storms of heaven.
This passage vividly depicts the atrocities committed against innocent people during the conflict.
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Was it a mere speculation, a wild fancy, that the framers of the Constitution would not admit that there could be such a thing as property in man?
It was dangerous to liberty then; no man now apprehends any danger to liberty, unless from the same source.
I never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me, to possess another slave by purchase, it being my first wish to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
We ought to lament and deplore the necessity of holding our fellow men in bondage.
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