The time for prevention is past.

This is great gain.

When the movement was younger and weaker--when it wrought in a Boston garret to human apprehension, it might have been silently put out of the way.

Things are different now.
It has grown too large--its friends are too numerous--its facilities too abundant--its ramifications too extended--its power too omnipotent, to be snuffed out by the contingencies of infancy.

A thousand strong men might be struck down, and its ranks still be invincible.