And the more ardently it was cherished by them, the more hateful did it become with the Boston Board.

It was the only one of the new ideas which had any logical sequence from the Abolition cause.

In a country where the principle of popular suffrage obtains, all successful moral movements must sometime ultimate in political action.

There is no other way of fixing in laws the changes in public sentiment wrought during this period of agitation.
The idea of political action was therefore a perfectly natural growth from the moral movement against slavery.

The only reasonable objection to it would be one which went to show that it had arrived out of due course, that its appearance at any given time was marked by prematurity in respect of the reasons, so to speak, of the reform.