What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

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