I doubt not that our victory just achieved will awaken reverberations also to be heard round the world.

All men struggling for rights, vindicating liberal ideas, seeking human improvement, maintaining republican government, will be encouraged, when they hear of yesterday.

It will be good news to Garibaldi in Italy, good news to the French now subjected to imperial power, good news to English Reformers,--and so also will it be good news to all among us who love Liberty, for it proclaims that at last Liberty…

Every four years we choose a new President; but it rarely happens that we choose a new government, as was done yesterday.

A new order of things is inaugurated, with new auspices, lifting the Republic once more to that platform of principles on which it was originally placed by the Fathers.

What victory of the cartridge-box ever did so much?

And yet again it is declared, that in the administration of the National Government the original policy of the Fathers shall be adopted, in opposition to the policy of Slavery, which for the last twelve years has been so tyrannical, and…

And still further, the decree goes forth that the Slave-Trade shall be suppressed in reality as in name, that the statutes against it shall be vigorously enforced, and the power of the Government directed in good faith against it, all…

These things were yesterday proclaimed by the American people solemnly, and in a way from which there is no appeal.

Having obtained this great victory, let us study to use it with moderation, with prudence, with wisdom.

They will naturally rejoice in that great victory by which the American people have solemnly declared that Slavery is sectional and Freedom is national, so that, wherever Slavery exists, if it exist at all, it must be by virtue of local…

All experience shows that the partisans of Slavery stick at nothing, where the imagined interests of Slavery are in question.

Besides contributing immensely to that victory which now gladdens our hearts, you have shown that here at the North are men ready, if the exigency requires, to leap forward in defence of Northern rights, which are only Constitutional…

But you know well that this change, so beneficent and natural, is in completest harmony with the Constitution and with the declared sentiments of our fathers.

Surely good men will rejoice to see our country regain once more that happy condition, nor can any person regret it who does not deliberately exalt Slavery above Freedom.

Already the country seems fairer, the skies clearer, the air purer, and all good influences more abundant, while Liberty opens the way to prosperity and renown.

Not merely will Slavery cease its baleful predominance in the Government, but other things will be accomplished.

While indulging in proper congratulations on such a victory, we can afford to disregard all menaces, from whatever quarter they come, whether from the distant South or nearer home.

Conscious of right, we have only to go forward, mindful always of the Constitution, mindful also of that just moderation which adds to the strength of firmness.

The light which they have carried, I trust, is symbolical of that which, under the new Administration, will be directed upon the dark places of Government, while their activity and promptitude furnish an example which all may be proud to…

Its success is the triumph not only of Freedom, but also of the Constitution, long perverted to the purposes of Slavery.

Pardon me, but I never tire of reminding my fellow-citizens, that, when Washington took his first oath as President, the Constitution nowhere on the land, within the national jurisdiction, covered a slave; and surely the Republican party…

Bear this in mind, if you please; and when it is said that you are aggressive, reply fearlessly, “Then is the Constitution aggressive, then was Washington aggressive.” With these two authorities we cannot hesitate.

If attacks upon the Republican party here at home have caused a different impression in any quarter, the responsibility belongs to those who have constantly and systematically maligned and misrepresented us.

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