Liberty In The Abstract

A. ivriterin the State Journal, speaking of the abolí, tionisfs, says that their doctrines "are undoubtfcdly in the abstract worthy of a mag naniiDous people, and founded upon the pureet philanthrop7."lf they aro worthy of magnanimous people in the abstract, would.o? would not the writer have the samo peopJa reduce Uipso doctrines to pracüce? Or 13 he in favor of liberty only h the abstract? Ko.w is ït.