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.

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

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.

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

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

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

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.