I Will Be As Harsh As Truth,

The Apathy Of The People Is Enough To Make Every Statue Leap From Its Pedestal And Hasten The Resurrection Of The Dead.

What Shall Be Said, Then, Of Those Who Insist Upon Ignoring The Question Of Slavery As Not Involved In This Deadly Feud, And Maintain That The Only Issue Is, The Support Of The Government And The Preservation Of The Union? Surely, They Are "fools And Blind"; For It Is Slaveholders Alone Who Have Conspired To Seize The One, And Overturn The Other. As Long As The Enslavement Of A Single Human Being Is Sanctioned In The Land, The Curse Of God Will Rest Upon It.

Our Country Is The World, Our Countrymen Are All Mankind. We Love The Land Of Our Nativity, Only As We Love All Other Lands. The Interests, Rights, And Liberties Of American Citizens Are No More Dear To Us Than Are Those Of The Whole Human Race. Hence We Can Allow No Appeal To Patriotism, To Revenge Any National Insult Or Injury.

I Will Be As Harsh As Truth, And Uncompromising As Justice... I Am In Earnest, I Will Not Equivocate, I Will Not Excuse, I Will Not Retreat A Single Inch, And I Will Be Heard.

We May Be Personally Defeated, But Our Principles Never!