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.

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.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

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

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.