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.

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.

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

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.

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.

...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.

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