tant respects. That party, sir, has determined upon a
fixed, definite, and comprehensive policy toward the whole colored
population of the United States. What that policy is, it becomes us
as abolitionists, and especially does it become the colored people
themselves, to consider and to understand fully. We ought to know
who our enemies are, where they are, and what are their objects and
measures. Well, sir, here is my version of it--not original with me--but
mine because I hold it to be true.

I understand this policy to comprehend five cardinal objects. They are
these: 1st. The complete suppression of all anti-slavery discussion.
2d. The expatriation of the entire free people of color from the United
States. 3d. The unending perpetuation of slavery in this republic. 4th.
The nationalization of slavery to the extent of making slavery respected
in every state of the Union. 5th. The extension of slavery over Mexico
and the entire South American states.

Sir, these objects are forcibly presented to us in the stern logic of
passing events; in the facts which are and have been passing around us
during the last three years. The country has been and is now dividing
on these grand issues. In their magnitude, these issues cast all others
into the shade, depriving them of all life and vitality. Old party
ties are broken. Like is finding its like on either side of these great
issues, and the great battle is at hand. For the present, the best
representative of the slavery party in politics is the democratic party.
Its great head for the{359} present is President Pierce, whose boast it
was, before his election, that his whole life had been consistent with
the interests of slavery, that he is above reproach on that score. In
his inaugural address, he reassures the south on this point. Well,
the head of the slave power being in power, it is natural that the pro
slavery elements should cluster around the administration, and this
is rapidly being done. A fraternization is going on. The stringent
protectionists and the free-traders strike hands. The supporters of
Fillmore are becoming the supporters of Pierce. The silver-gray whig
shakes hands with the hunker democrat; the former only differing from
the latter in name. They are of one heart, one mind, and the union is
natural and perhaps inevitable. Both hate Negroes; both hate progress;
both hate the "higher law;" both hate William H. Seward; both hate the
free democratic party; and up