Demanding what they do, and for the reason they do, they can voluntarily stop nowhere short of this consummation.

Holding, as they do, that slavery is morally right, and socially elevating, they cannot cease to demand a full national recognition of it, as a legal right and a social blessing.
Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground, save our conviction that slavery is wrong.

If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away.

If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality--its universality! if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension--its enlargement.

All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong.