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

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

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

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.