There is a toast most richly indented, to aid the spread of civilization. Lawrence to Chicago smaller rivers, a dynamic force, turning the many thousand mills of the industrious North. There are three million square miles, with every variety of climate, and soil, and mineral great rivers, a static force, inclined planes for travel reaching from New Orleans to the Falls of St. The full breadth of the continent is ours, from sea to sea, from the great lakes to the great gulf. After all that has been said by wise, powerful, and eloquent men, in this city, this week, perhaps I shall have scarce anything to present that is new.Īs you look on the general aspect of America to-day, its main features are not less than sublime, while they are likewise beautiful exceedingly. Ladies and Gentlemen,-I shall ask your attention this evening to some few thoughts on the present condition of the United States in respect to Slavery.
DELIVERED BEFORE THE NEW YORK CITY ANTI-SLATERY SOCIETY,ĪT ITS FIRST ANNIVERSARY, HELD AT THE BROADWAY TABERNACLE, May 12, 1854.
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