It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

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.

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

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

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

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

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.