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

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

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

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

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

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

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.