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

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

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

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.

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.

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