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

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

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

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

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.