God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
The nourishment is palatable.
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.