"It has always been a great wrong that……" — Jay Alan Sekulow
"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue."
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Jay Alan Sekulow
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