Crowned with those scars, shalt thou enter the just man’s heaven,-- Crowned with those scars, shalt thou stand in the record of heroes!

He stood in the vanguard of Freedom, and the marks of the ruffianly outrage inflicted upon him, which he will probably bear to the grave, he will wear as more honorable scars than ever warrior brought from a battle-field.

The fact is incontestable, that, when the Massachusetts Senator again crosses the threshold of that Senate Chamber, Slavery will have to confront the most formidable foe it ever had to face before the public eye.

He will come with every muscle braced and every sinew strung by the sense of measureless personal wrong; but infinitely more than that, he will come armed with the indignation and shielded by the moral support of the whole North.

Hitherto he has figured but in one character, the assailant of Slavery; henceforth he will be also the accredited assertor and champion of the most sacred right of freedom of speech, and as such will command tenfold greater consideration.

The public man, who has once been the occasion of such an outburst of sympathy and good-will as has within the last week sprung from the mouth of millions upon millions of his countrymen, is no longer a man to be disdained.

I could not discern the slightest symptom of chagrin or mortification,--no sense of the dishonor which so many attach to the blow unrevenged.

Jackson’s suggestion, that the same principle which permitted him to defend himself, when attacked, should induce him to punish the offence, he promptly explained the difference between self-defence and revenge.

His brain is throbbing with pent thunderbolts,--and if he could only get into the citadel of his foes, and hurl them hissing into their faces!

Kansas, Kansas and her wrongs, if he could but fight her battles!

He does not appear as if he knew how to be afraid, or could learn, if he tried for a lifetime.

There is a lion look about him, and a courage which could not stoop to assault so frail a thing as a human body.

Nothing you can do will shut the mouths of journals whose trade is lying and abuse.

It is fair to say, and a hopeful sign of the times also, that these cavils fall to the ground utterly ineffectual and harmless.

You have done more than your share in this session’s fight,--enough to satisfy the most impatient spirit.

Come home to recruit for years and a crisis when we shall need you even more than now,--when your voice will be worth more, far more, than even now.

The most ardent wish of all who love you is that you consider yourself: in so doing now you best serve the cause.

You have time enough before you to perfect your duty to your country, which you have already so gloriously commenced.

History will avenge you on your adversary, which not all the votes of all the slave-holders between the tropics can save from an infamy as lasting as the history of our country.

We thank God that he has given us such texts: now make our gratitude unalloyed by building up your strength in silence and quiet for that fiercer struggle yet which lies before us all.

I conjure you, as you love Freedom, save yourself: we need you more in the future than now.

I wish that I could convince you that it is neither necessary for the public nor would it be useful in any way to yourself to speak in this canvass, even if you should find yourself able.

You have suffered enough, even if you had done nothing; and yet what you have suffered is only a consequence of having done more than any other.

It is time that Freedom should have a decided triumph in order to commend itself to a vacillating people.

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.