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

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

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

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

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

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

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.