To be a slave-holder is to be a propagandist from necessity; for slavery can only live by keeping down the under-growth morality which nature supplies.

Every new-born white babe comes armed from the Eternal presence, to make war on slavery.

The heart of pity, which would melt in due time over the brutal chastisements it sees inflicted on the helpless, must be hardened.

And this work goes on every day in the year, and every hour in the day.
What is done at home is being done also abroad here in the north.

And even now the question may be asked, have we at this moment a single free state in the Union?
The alarm at this point will become more general.{370} The slave power must go on in its career of exactions.
Give, give, will be its cry, till the timidity which concedes shall give place to courage, which shall resist.