QUOTES
It
seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea
of selling a fellow creature to slavery.
"Has
the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different
species? Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food. .
. . And should we not then enjoy the same liberty. . .?"
"Whilst
so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and
the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble,
may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered."
Our
country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the
globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among
a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.
