Go search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. -- The speech concludes by dashing the last rationalization available to the listeners. Our actions rarely seem as heinous when we can point to more dire transgressions. But Douglass rests his argument with one final logical appeal. He challenges his audience to find a more bloody, more guilty government. He is convinced there is none. "America reigns without rival."