...m, and often elicits a deep and bitter curse. They saw in it not what it was meant to be, an appeal to the Northern conscience, but an instigation to servile insurrection. For what purpose, asked Senator Benton in 1835 of a similar issue from the abolition mint, could such a picture be intended unless to inflame the passions of slaves?—as if it could sink deeper into their consciousness than the lash...