Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.