The question stated--The conduct of masters a separate
question--The institution defined--The position of the
abolitionists, and that of the Southern people--The
_presumption_ is in favor of the latter--Those who claim
freedom for the blacks of this country failed to secure it to
those on whom they professed to confer it--The _doctrine_ by
which they seek to vindicate the claim set up for them,
together with the _fact_ of history assumed to be true, is
false