Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

I am a mystery to myself.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North, go on!go on! Never falter, never abandon the principles which you have adopted.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.