There I see the tenderest ties ruthlessly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice, and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men.

My soul sickens at the sight.
_Is this the land your fathers loved?
The freedom which they toiled to win?
Is this the earth whereon they moved?
Are these the graves they slumber in ?_ But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented.

By an act of the American congress, not yet two years old, slavery has been nationalized in its most horrible and revolting form.

By that act, Mason and Dixon's line has been obliterated; New York has become as Virginia; and the power to hold, hunt, and sell men, women, and children as slaves, remains no longer a mere state institution, but is now an institution of the whole United States.

The power is coextensive with the star-spangled banner and American christianity.