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.

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

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.

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

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

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.