I take the anti-slavery movement to be such an one, and a movement as sublime and glorious in its character, as it is holy and beneficent in the ends it aims to accomplish.

At this moment, I deem it safe to say, it is properly engrossing more minds in this country than any other subject now before the American people.

The late John C.
Calhoun--one of the mightiest men that ever stood up in the American senate--did not deem it beneath him; and he probably studied it as deeply, though not as honestly, as Gerrit Smith, or William Lloyd Garrison.

He evinced the greatest familiarity with the subject; and the greatest efforts of his last years in the senate had direct reference to this movement.

His eagle eye watched every new development connected with it; and he was ever prompt to inform the south of every important step in its progress.