Excerpt from Slavery: Letters and Speeches The emulous and aspiring youth of a Free People will always find much of their private, and most of their public welfare, indis solubly connected with the institutions and laws of their country. In these, therefore, their interest is both public and personal it pertains to the citizen as well as to the man. All great moral questions, though touching. Them but lightly at first, will come closer and closer home, as long as they live; growing into greater importance for their posthumous memory than for their living fame, and affecting the fortunes of their posterity even more than their own. Though all Young Men are substantially alike in their desire of well being, yet, in regard. To the guiding principles by which the objects of hope are pursued, in order to obtain happiness, three marked distinctions, or classes, exist among them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.