The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.