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

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

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.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

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

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

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.