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.

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 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.

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

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.

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