The growth of intelligence, the influence of commerce, steam, wind, and lightning are our allies.
It would be easy to amplify this summary, and to swell the vast conglomeration of our material forces; but there is a deeper and truer method of measuring the power of our cause, and of comprehending its vitality.

This is to be found in its accordance with the best elements of human nature.

It is beyond the power of slavery to annihilate affinities recognized and established by the Almighty.

The slave is bound to mankind by the powerful and inextricable net-work of human brotherhood.

His voice is the voice of a man, and his cry is the cry of a man in distress, and man must cease to be man before he can become insensible to that cry.