Slavery is ethically abhorrent to all right-minded men; and it is to be condemned without stint on this ground alone.

From the standpoint of the master caste it is to condemned even more strongly because it invariably in the end threatens the very existence of that master caste.

From this point of view the presence of the negro is the real problem; slavery is merely the worst possible method of solving the problem.

In their earlier stages the problem and its solution, in America, were one.

There may be differences of opinion as to how to solve the problem; but there can be none whatever as to the evil wrought by those who brought about that problem; and it was only the slave-holders and the slave-traders who were guilty on this last count.