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

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

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.

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.

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

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.