I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

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.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

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

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.