But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.