In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.