Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified.

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.

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

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

Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .