Well was it said by one of your own statesmen, 'My doctrines on the slavery question are those of my ancestors, modified by themselves, as they were in an act of Confederation.

In this one respect they left society in the political condition in which they found it.

A reform would have been fearful and calamitous.

A political revolution with one class was morally impracticable.

Consulting a wise humanity, they submitted to a condition in which Providence had placed them.