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

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.

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

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.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

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