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

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 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.

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

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.