The people even in the free States denounced the discussion of slavery, and suppressed it by unlawful force.

John Quincy Adams stood unmoved amid the storm.

He knew that the only danger incident to political reform, was the danger of delaying it too long.

The French Revolution had made this an axiom of political science.

If, indeed, the discussion of slavery was so hazardous as was pretended, it had been deferred too long already.