A single editor was offered the printing of Post-Office blanks worth at least eighty thousand dollars, if by an article no larger than a man’s hand he would show submission to the Administration.

Is not all this enough to arouse the indignation of the people?

It is true that the President, whose power began in corruption, and who is responsible author of the corruption by which his administration has been debased, is no longer a candidate for office.

The exposed corrupter, the tyrant enslaver, and the robber of Human Freedom cannot be forgotten.

Better for him the oblivion of common life than the bad fame he has won!

Simply to resist this combination, and to save the Republic from its degrading influence, would justify the formation of the Republican party; and I doubt not that there are many who will be content to unite with us on this ground alone…

The Republican party seeks to overthrow the Slave Oligarchy in the National Government, and especially at this moment to stay its aggressions in the Territories, which, through a corrupt interpretation of the Constitution, it threatens to…

But all who seek purity in the National Government must unite in this purpose; for only by the overthrow of this base Oligarchy, which, beginning in the denial of all human rights, necessarily shows itself in barbarism and villany of all…

As well attempt to explain the Gulf Stream without the Gulf of Mexico, or the Origin of Evil without the human heart, as attempt to explain the present degraded character of the National Government without Slavery.

And permit me to say that our warfare with these iniquities will be feeble, unless we attack them in their origin.

In the Convention which framed the Constitution it was branded as “a nefarious institution,” or more mildly called “wrong”; and these generous voices came from the South as well as from the North.

The Constitution was adopted, but the word Slave was not allowed to pollute its text; and this was in declared deference to the prevailing opinion, which regarded Slavery as temporary, destined soon to pass away.

Little then did the Fathers dream that the Evil which they regarded with shame and exerted themselves to prohibit would elevate its obscene crest as it now does, and flaunt its monstrous pretensions before the world.

Indeed, it is hardly too much to say that out of this slender cotton fibre are formed the manacles of the slave.

Thus, through sinister activity, and the wickedness of men, is good made the minister of wrong.

Calhoun, they threw aside all reserve, openly assailed the opinions of the Fathers, audaciously denied the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence, and by formal resolution asserted the new dogma of Slavery in the…

It is only the first step which costs, and therefore the authors of these opinions, so shocking to the moral sense, do not hesitate at other opinions equally shocking to the reason, even to the extent of finding impossible sanctions for…

Futile is the plea that we at the North have nothing to do with Slavery.

Granted that we have nothing to do with it in the States, we have much to do with all its irrational assumptions under the Constitution, and just so long as these are urged must Slavery be discussed.

It must be laid bare in its enormity, precisely as though it were proposed to plant it here in the streets of New York.

Nor can such a wrong--foul in itself, and fouler still in pretensions--be dealt with tamely.

Surely, if ever there was a moment when every faculty should be bent to the service, and all invigorated by an inspiring zeal, it is now, while the battle between Civilization and Barbarism is still undecided, and you are summoned to…

Words only are mine, when I ought to command thunderbolts.

Voice only is mine, when, like the ancient Athenian, I ought to carry the weapons of Zeus on the tongue.

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