The authors of all our misfortune.

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

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.

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

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.