Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

That which is not just is not law.

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.