But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.