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

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.

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 welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

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

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