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.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

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.

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.

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

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

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.