But how is it with the American slave?
Where may he assemble?
Where is his Conciliation Hall?
Where are his newspapers?
Where is his right of petition?
Where is his freedom of speech?
his liberty of the press?
and his right of locomotion?
He is said to be happy; happy men can speak.
But ask the slave what is his condition--what his state of mind--what he thinks of enslavement?
and you had as well address your inquiries to the _silent dead_.

There comes no _voice_ from the enslaved.

We are left to gather his feelings by imagining what ours would be, were our souls in his soul's stead.
If there were no other fact descriptive of slavery, than that the slave is dumb, this alone would be sufficient to mark the slave system as a grand aggregation of human horrors.
Most who are present, will have observed that leading men in this{342} country have been putting forth their skill to secure quiet to the nation.

A system of measures to promote this object was adopted a few months ago in congress.

The result of those measures is known.