But when it brought in 300 percent master and slave became a Christian relation, and slavery was baptized with quotations from the Old Testament.
But avarice could not forever blind men's eyes to scenes of sorrow, nor stop their ears to sounds of woe.

When the horrors of the slave-market and the infamies of the cotton-field filled all the land with shame reformers arose, declaring that the attempt to compress and confine liberty would end in explosion.

In that hour Northern men made tentative overtures looking to the purchase of all slaves.

But slavery, Delilah-like, made the southern leaders drunk with the cup of sorcery.

They scorned the proposition.