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

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

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

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

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.

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