human
I beseech you Wrest once the law to your authority; To do a great right, do a little wrong.
gpt
was at last the price. After a struggle of seventy-two years the crisis came, Sumter was fired upon and the compromise was found to be a failure.
human
A pound of flesh!
gpt
I think a change is already perceptible since the origin of the present revolution. The way I hope is preparing, under the auspices of heaven, for a total emancipation. But slavery grew stronger, instead of weaker, under the compromise, and from time to time required more compromises, and more surrenders. The Missouri Compromise, the Annexation of Texas, and the Fugitive Slave Law, each extorted under threats of the
human
are examples. But no compromise ever wrenched an inch of territory from the clutch of slavery and gave it to freedom. Freedom _held_ the whole Northwest, by the _un_-compromising requirement:
gpt
There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude
human
Slavery is wrong--that we all admit--but it is a fixed fact, invulnerable, backed up by wealth, talent, pride and political influence, and all opposition is vain. You Abolitionists are mere sentimentalists, visionaries, doctrinaires. This had great influence with the indifferent, the timid, and especially with those who vaunt themselves as