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.

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

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

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

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

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