There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

Revolutions never go backward.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

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