Steinbeck was receive an award of noble prize :)
Lets define 'direct object'; "The object that directly receives the action of the verb.
In this case, the direct object is worms.
Its saying slavery is wrong and anybody who does not think its wrong think anything else anybody do is wrong.So it saying like if you dont think slavery wrong then killing somebody is not wrong. Its saying its going by the constitution and sticking to the law that all man are created equal.So all this saying whoever wrote this want to get the power and change the oath.