Knowing how quick we all are to heed the universal voice of mankind, we should be lenient toward others who are thus tempted and fall.
"It has appeared strange to some that the Americans could fight for their own freedom from England and yet not think of those whom they then held in slavery.

It should be remembered that the two kinds of slavery were by no means identical.

The Americans fought for a theory and abstract principle.

The negro did not even discern the points at issue; and the Anglo-Saxon naturally did not concern himself at that time with any one so gross as not to know anything of a principle for which he, (the Anglo-Saxon) was ready to offer up his life.
"Our President alluded to the fact that the negro was unpaid for all his years of toil.

It is true that he was not paid in coin, but he received that from the Anglo-Saxons which far outweighs in value all the gold coin on earth.