From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty

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.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.