"Am I going to stand by and see them take my wife and sell her ?" exclaimed the negro.
"No, God help me! I'll fight to the last breath before they shall take my wife and son.

Can you blame me ?" To which the Quaker replied: "Mortal man cannot blame thee, George.

Flesh and blood could not do otherwise.
'Woe unto the world because of offences but woe unto them through whom the offence cometh.'" "Would not even you, sir, do the same, in my place ?" "I pray that I be not tried." And in the ensuing events the Quaker played an important part.
Laws enacted for the protection of slave property are shown to be destructive of the fundamental rights of freemen; they are inhuman.

The Ohio Senator, who in his lofty preserve at the capital of his country could discourse eloquently of his readiness to keep faith with the South in the matter of the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, becomes, when at home with his family, a flagrant violator of the law.
Elemental human nature is pitted against the apparent interests of a few individual slaveowners.

The story of Uncle Tom placed all supporters of the new law on the defensive.