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.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

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

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

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

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