Others may have equivocated, but this man called things by their proper names, a spade, a spade, and sin, sin.

Others may have contented themselves with denunciations of the sins and with excuses for the sinner, as a creature of circumstances, the victim of ancestral transgressions, but this man offered no excuses for the slave-holding sinner.

Him and his sin he denounced in language, which the Eternal puts only into the mouths of His prophets.

It was, as he had said, "On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation." The strength and resources of his mother-tongue seemed to him wholly inadequate for his needs, to express the transcendent wickedness of slave-holding.

All the harsh, the stern, the terrible and tremendous energies of the English speech he drew upon, and launched at slaveholders.