At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

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

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

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

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.