I shall, therefore, avoid water in which I cannot swim, and deal with anti-slavery as a fact, like any other fact in the history of mankind, capable of being described and understood, both as to its internal forces, and its external phases and relations.
[After an eloquent, a full, and highly interesting exposition of the nature, character, and history of the anti-slavery movement, from the insertion of which want of space precludes us, he concluded in the following happy manner.] Present organizations may perish, but the cause will go on.

That cause has a life, distinct and independent of the organizations patched up from time to time to carry it forward.

Looked at, apart from the bones and sinews and body, it is a thing immortal.

It is the very essence of justice, liberty, and love.

The moral life of human society, it cannot die while conscience, honor, and humanity remain.