The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.