But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.