Mr.Everett's language made no impression on him, because he had not the key to interpret its significance.

What he saw, that he set down for his readers, without fear or favor.

He had not seen slavery, knew nothing of the evil.
Acquaintance with the deeper things of life, individual or national, comes only with increasing years, they are hardly for him who has not yet reached his majority.

Slavery was the very deepest thing in the life of the nation sixty-four years ago.

And if Garrison did not then so understand it, neither did his contemporaries, the wisest and greatest of them so understand it.