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.

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.

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

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

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

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.