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

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

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.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

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.