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

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.

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

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 welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

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