It has called into exercise among the colored people, the hunted ones, a spirit of manly resistance well calculated to surround them with a bulwark of sympathy and respect hitherto unknown.

For men are always disposed to respect and defend rights, when the victims of oppression stand up manfully for themselves.
There is another element of power added to the anti-slavery movement, of great importance; it is the conviction, becoming every day more general and universal, that slavery must be abolished at the south, or it will demoralize and destroy liberty at the north.

It is the nature of slavery to beget a state of things all around it favorable to its own continuance.

This fact, connected with the system of bondage, is beginning to be more fully realized.

The slave-holder is not satisfied to associate with men in the church or in the state, unless he can thereby stain them with the blood of his slaves.