Moral Influence.—power of Truth.

And finally, it is our right and duty to exert our moral influence against slavery at the South, and—though we cannot legislate upon it there,—to change the public sentiment which governs legislation; so that they who have the power may also have the will to take from injustice the support of law, from manhood’s brow the brand of chattelism, from American democracy its foul reproach, and from our country its darkest guilt and deadliest curse and greatest danger. The faithful utterance of anti-slavery truth in earnest love and untiring perseverance, will win at last this glorious result, as surely as God’s promise is inviolate, that his word shall not return unto him void, but shall prosper in the thing whereto he sent it.

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