I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

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.

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.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

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

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.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.