in their condemnation of it.’  To that there can be no objection; but still the state of society is such that we cannot at once dispense with all the products of slave labor.  We may, however, be doing what we can—­examining the ways and methods by which this end may be brought about; and, at all events, we need not be deterred from self-denial, nor shrink before minor obstacles.  If with foresight we participate in the encouragement of slave labor, we must hold ourselves guilty, in no unimportant sense, of sustaining the system of slavery.  I will illustrate my argument by a very simple method.  Suppose two ships arrive laden with silks of the same quality, but one a pirate ship, in which the goods have been obtained by robbery, and the other by honest trade.  The pirate sells his silks twenty per cent. cheaper than the honest trader:  you go to him, and declaim against his dishonesty; but because you can get silks cheaper of him, you buy of him.  Would he think you sincere in your denunciations of his plundering his fellow-creatures, or would you exert any influence on him to make him abandon his dishonest practices?  I can, however, put another case in which this inconsistency might, perhaps, be unavoidable.  Suppose we were in famine or great necessity, and we wished to obtain provisions for our suffering families:  suppose, too, there was a certain man with provisions, who, we knew, had come by them dishonestly, but we had no other resource than to purchase of him.  In that case we should be justified in purchasing of him, and should not participate in the guilt of the robbery.  But still, however great our necessity, we are not justified in refusing to examine the subject, and in discouraging those who are endeavoring to set the thing on the right ground.  That is all I wish, and all the resolution contemplates; and, happily, I find that that also is what was implied in the address.  I may mention one other method alluded to in the address, and that is prayer to Almighty God.  This ought to be, and must be, a religious enterprise.  It is impossible for any man to contemplate slavery as it is without feeling intense indignation; and unless he have his heart near to God, and unless he be a man of prayer and devotional spirit, bad passions will arise, and to a very great extent neutralize his efforts to do good.  How do you suppose such a religious feeling has been preserved in the book to which the address refers?  Because it was written amid prayer from the beginning; and it is only by a constant exercise of the religious spirit that the good it had effected has been accomplished in the way it has.  There is one more subject to which I would allude, and that is unity among those who desire to emancipate the slave.  I mean a good understanding and unity of feeling among the opponents of slavery.  What gives slavery its great strength in the United States?  There are only about three hundred thousand slaveholders in the United States out of the whole twenty-five millions of its population,