The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave.

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

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.

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

For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.

It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.