We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

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