First the Slave power subdued the Executive; second the Legislative; and now it grasps the Judiciary. The grand object of the oligarchs is perfected. They have made Slavery National, Freedom Sectional. The Territories have become one great slave pen.
Original passage & context
"First, it subdued the Executive Government; second, the Legislative; and now it grasps the Judiciary. The grand object of the oligarchs has been perfected. They have made Slavery National, Freedom Sectional. [...] The Territories have become one great slave pen."
"Slavery National, Freedom Sectional" became the Republican formula of the next three years — the exact inversion of the party's own charge that it was the sectional one. Lincoln built the House Divided speech on this claim in June 1858.
Read it in the original — Ohio State Journal, Mar 11, 1857 ↗