It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

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

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.