Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.