I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

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

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.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

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.

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.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.