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

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

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.

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

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.