We are at least free from the continental system, by which the degradation of women is reduced to a systematized slavery, to meet what is openly called a necessity of nature.

The comparative purity of Englishmen and Americans is still a wonder, and often a derision to foreigners.

Our women are a greater power than in any other country.

We still start from a good vantage-ground.
England, certainly through no merit of her own, has been called by the providence of God to lead in great moral causes.

We led in the matter of slavery--the open sore of the world.