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

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

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

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.

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.

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.