...— as 1 suppose they will not — I would address a few words to the Southern people." He reasoned: "All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought...ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends...

...of opposition to slavery before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us. "If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are wrong and should be swept away. Holding, as they do, that slavery is morally right and socially elevating,...