In England, or in Europe, abolition is like stars and garters

In England, or in Europe, abolition is like stars and garters, the plaything or bauble, for the most part, of well-meaning theorists; but in this country, a cataclysm, which no rational being can contemplate without dread. None but fanatics like those who, in the English and French revolutions, ruled for a time with terror and bloodshed, recommend such abolition.
~ Charles J. Ingersoll (1856)