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

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

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

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.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

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

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