"Hear what?"
"The infamous resolution demanding that Kansas be made a white man's country and no negro, bond or free, shall ever be allowed to enter it?"
The hard mouth twitched with scorn. And his jaws came together with a snap.
"It doesn't matter what they add to their first maudlin plank on the
Slavery issue."
"Will you sit here and see this vile thing done?"
A look of weariness came over the stern face with its deep-cut lines.
"It's a waste of words to talk to politicians."
John, Jr. was grasping at the next resolution which was one surpassing belief. He rubbed his ears to see if he were really hearing correctly.
This resolution denounced the charge that they were Radicals at all. It denounced the attempt of any man to interfere by violence with slaves or Slavery where protected by the supreme law of the land. It repudiated as stale and ridiculous the charge of Abolitionism against them. And declared that such an accusation is without a shadow of truth to support it.
Charles Stearns, the representative of the New England Society, leaped to his feet and denounced the platform in withering tones. He fairly shrieked his final sentence: