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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.