We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.