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.

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

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

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

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.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.