My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
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.
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.