"Paley appears never to have contemplated those cases towhich the rule of expediency does not apply, in which apeople, as well and an individual, must do justice, cost whatit may. If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowningman, I must restore it to him though I drown myself. This,according to Paley, would be inconvenient. But he thatwould save his life, in such a case, shall lose it. This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people."

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