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

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

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.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

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

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.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.