Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

The will of God prevails.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.