The special operative gain to the Slave-Masters was the admission of Missouri as a Slave State, with two new slaveholding Senators to confirm their predominance in the Senate; and this was notoriously secured under threats of disunion, by…

It let out the great secrets of Virginia, and blabbed that policy by which she has hitherto bullied us, and led us, and wheedled us, and governed us.

For the Union and the Constitution, the Republican party is also the only party which maintains the great principles of Human Freedom.

Surely this Douglas and Johnson Popular Sovereignty should rather be called Popular Tyranny.

He does not say that he is “for the white man against the nigger and for the nigger against the alligator.” Perhaps the pretension becomes more dangerous because presented in more plausible form, and made part of a more comprehensive…

Face to face against this wretched pretension I put the true Popular Sovereignty, with Liberty and Equality for all, guarded and surrounded by the impassable limitation of Right, which is the god Terminus, never to be overthrown.

Within these great precincts there can be no Slavery, nor can there be any denial of Equal Rights.

The latter, as is well known, denied the sovereignty of the people in the Territories, but he agreed, heart and soul, in the pretension that the right to enslave a fellow-man is an incident of sovereignty, wherever it exists.

The enmity of Slavery may be dangerous, but its friendship is fatal.

It is in congratulation that you appear to-night once more with banners and lights, and I rejoice with you,--as I love Liberty and love my country.

I can never banish from my mind that picture of Washington taking his first oath to support the Constitution of the United States, when nowhere on the land within the national jurisdiction breathed a single slave.

The victory which we have won can be assured only by such conduct, tempered always by that wise moderation which is needful even in victory.

Arrived in Philadelphia, he announced that he had come to serve at his own expense and as volunteer.

In the cause of my black brethren,” he writes, “I feel myself warmly interested, and most decidedly side, so far as respects them, against the white part of mankind.

As I ever have been partial to my brethren of that color, I wish, if you are one in the society, you would move, in your own name, for my being admitted on the list.

It supplied a touchstone for all wrongs, and elevated the hearts of the people.

Here, as everywhere, he was open, sincere, and brave.

But his heart went wherever Liberty was struggling,--now with the Pole, and then with the African slave.

But he did not despair, although, on one occasion, when this inconsistency glared upon him, his impatient philanthropy exclaimed, that he would never have drawn his sword for America, had he known that it was to found a government…

Long accustomed to free speech, I am too old now to renounce it.

If I am strong with the North, it is because of the conviction that I cannot compromise; but the moment I compromised, I, too, should be lost.

The ‘Barbarism of Slavery’ is now demonstrated before ‘all Israel and the sun.’ I see little good to come from the election of Lincoln, if the platform of the opposing candidates is to be adopted by the Republican leaders.

From war, pestilence, and famine, from all assaults of the world, the flesh, and the Devil, good Lord, deliver us,--but most especially from any compromise with traitors, or any bargain with Slavery!

Massachusetts has not acted directly on these propositions, which seek to give Slavery Constitutional protection in Territories, and disfranchise large numbers of her citizens; but I believe such are the convictions of the Massachusetts…

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