"We ourselves hope the compromise to be more nearly final.

Perhaps you as well as others hold to the so-called doctrine of the 'higher law'?
Perhaps you found your politics in Rousseau's _Nouvelle Heloise_, rather than in the more sober words of our own Constitution ?" His eyes were quizzical, yet not unkind.
"Certain doctrines seem to endure," was her stout answer, kindling.
"I am but a woman, yet I take it that anything that I can say will have no value unless it shall be sincere.

To me, this calm is something which can not endure." "There at least do not lack others who are of that belief.

But why ?" "They told me in the West that the South has over three million slaves.

They told me that the labor of more than seven million persons, black and white, is controlled by less than a third of a million men; and of all that third of a million, less than eight thousand practically represent the owners of these blacks, who do not vote.