True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

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

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

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

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.