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

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

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

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

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

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.