But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

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.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

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

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.

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

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.