A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

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