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

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

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

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

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 do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.