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

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

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

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

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.

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.