My Bondage and My Freedom, Part 34 summary

What happens

1. The speaker lists five goals: suppress discussion, expel free Black people, perpetuate slavery, nationalize it, and extend it abroad.
2. He describes rival political factions uniting around slavery, with President Pierce and the Democratic Party leading.
3. He connects the Compromise of 1850, Northern discriminatory laws, and Senate committee exclusions to coordinated pro-slavery power.
4. He describes immigrants replacing Black workers while the American Colonization Society seeks government support for removal to Africa.
5. He turns from these threats to confidence that slavery’s opponents possess strong resources of their own.
6. He argues that free speech resists suppression and that a slaveholder’s conscience prevents peace even without public criticism.

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