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.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

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

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 prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

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.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.