My Bondage and My Freedom, Part 35 summary

What happens

1. The speaker presents antislavery as a major force that its opponents, including John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster, recognize.
2. He describes its disruption of churches, political loyalties, preaching, and public discussion.
3. He argues that the cause survives individual organizations because justice, liberty, and love remain accessible to human conscience.
4. He exposes opponents who approve these principles for themselves but refuse to extend them to enslaved people.
5. He identifies literature, songs, international sympathy, and shared humanity as sources of antislavery strength.
6. He argues that suppression strengthens resistance and that slavery threatens northern liberty, then closes by affirming his confidence in the cause.

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