...ns for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law and the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia; Henry Wilson, by his bill for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade; but especially Owen Lovejoy , inviting by his speech of April 5 the fate of his martyr brother, redeemed the Republican Party from the stigma of universal cowardice. If slavery is right in Virginia, said Lovejoy, it is right ...