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

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

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

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