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.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

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

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.