But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.