It is amazing to see to what depths of baseness some of the partisan presses in the interest of the Oligarchy will descend.

I hope, however, you will be able to return to your home and your seat this winter, with health and vigor, able to engage once more in the battles for the great cause for which you have suffered so much and so long.

And I trust you will not deem me too bold, if I express a desire that the contributions intended for the testimonial to me may be applied at once, and without abatement of any kind, to the recovery and security of Freedom in Kansas.

Sumner’s noble and eloquent speech has ‘hardened into deeds,’ for which we hope many a poor sufferer in Kansas will long have occasion to bless his memory.

We supplicate, in your behalf, from the Almighty Source of Good a rapid restoration of your health and strength, and ever-increasing powers of will, of faith, of action, and of speech, in the infinite service of Humanity.

It is impossible to calculate the salutary influence of such examples.

I have long honored Colonel Fremont for his genius in geographical enterprise, his eminent intelligence, his manly fortitude, his perfect integrity, and his easy command of men,--swaying to his own beneficent purpose even the savages of…

It is well, at this moment, when a Great Crime is instigated and sustained by the National Government, that such a man, with courage which will not be questioned, and with sensitiveness to right which will not rest, should be summoned to…

But better even than the candidates is the Declaration of Principles, under which we now go forth to conquer.

Such a Declaration, promulgated by such a Convention, is in itself the beginning of victory.

Strong in simplicity and truthfulness, it must prevail just so soon as it is comprehended.

It expresses objects which should enlist the Conservative, while they enlist the Reformer,--which should rally all who turn with respect to the example of the Fathers, while they rally all who are filled with aspirations for a brighter…

It proposes to save Kansas from the revolting usurpation established in that fair Territory, and in this good work it joins issue with the Slave Oligarchy, now swaying our whole country; so that, in saving Kansas, we shall necessarily…

Now or never! now and forever!--such was the ancient war-cry, which, embroidered on the Irish flag, streamed from the Castle of Dublin, and resounded through the whole island, arousing a generous people to new struggle for ancient rights…

Arise now, or an inexorable slave-driving Tyranny will be fastened upon you.

Meanwhile I commit the cause which we have at heart to the generous sympathies of the people, who will surely rise to smite the oppressor.

Thus has it been throughout all history; and never before in history did Liberty stand in greater need of their irresistible aid.

It is the young who give spontaneous welcome to Truth, when she first appears an unattended stranger.

It is the young who open the soul with instinctive hospitality to the noble cause.

The great discoverer Harvey, on announcing the circulation of the blood, was astonished to find that no person upward of forty received this important truth.

More fortunate than this discovery, our cause rallies in its support alike the experience of age and the ardor of youth; but it is in the glowing embrace of the young that it finds assurance of victory.

Let it apply itself with earnestness, diligence, and singleness of purpose to the rescue of our fair land from the tyranny which now degrades it.

At all events, this State, first planted by the Author of Religious Freedom, will see that Human Rights do not suffer through the votes of her children.

I have watched with interest your generous fund for the relief and liberation of Kansas, now insulted, trodden down, torn, and enslaved by the President of the United States, acting as the tool of the tyrannical Slave Oligarchy.

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