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

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

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

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

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