The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.
I am quite aware they do not state their case precisely in this way.

Most of them would probably say to us, "Let us alone, do nothing to us, and say what you please about slavery." But we do let them alone--have never disturbed them; so that, after all, it is what we say which dissatisfies them.

They will continue to accuse us of doing until we cease saying.
I am also aware they have not, as yet, in terms, demanded the overthrow of our free-State constitutions.

Yet those constitutions declare the wrong of slavery, with more solemn emphasis than do all other sayings against it, and when all these other sayings shall have been silenced, the overthrow of these constitutions will be demanded and nothing be left to resist the demand.

It is nothing to the contrary that they do not demand the whole of this just now.