 they mourn that a yoke of a thousand-fold more grievance is fastened upon them. Alas, they are slaves in the midst of freedom. They are slaves to those who boast that freedom is the unalienable right of all, and the clanking of their fetters and the voice of their wrongs make a hard discord in the songs of freedom which resound through the land. No people in the world profess so high a respect for liberty and equality as the people of the United States, and yet no people hold so many slaves