Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.