To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

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.

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

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

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

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.