If you will touch men’s hearts so nobly, you must not be surprised that they leap toward you; and when men move my deepest respect and admiration, I must tell them so.

God give you strength for this battle, and, amidst the shifting experiences of the Government, and above ‘the confused noise of the warrior,’ make your word ‘On to Freedom’ clearly and widely heard by our countrymen.

It wrung my heart, but what could I do?… Meantime let me thank you, as a servant of God and in the name of my brother man, for your Worcester speech, which I have just read, for your magnificent broadside called the ‘Barbarism of Slavery,’…

Whether speaking for others or myself individually, I only express a general acknowledgment among all Liberty-loving men, when I say that to you preëminently is assigned the responsible, yet honorable, task of indicating the advance of…

Rest assured, my noble friend, that God and all truly great and good men are with you, therefore you have nothing to fear from the malice of cowardly time-servers.

Be assured that neither you nor the great truths you advocate will be at all harmed by the malignant attacks of the Hunker press.

Well, some must be pioneers, and others will follow at a carefully considered distance: editors and office-seekers will be farthest in the rear.

I thank you for those manly, true, and earnest words, which it would be well for our country--Government and people--to consider.

They involve principles of political economy of unequalled importance to our country, especially in its present condition.

All honor, then, to the man who dares to risk his reputation in representing the Emancipation sentiment of the country!

Then, and not till then, can we begin to subdue Rebellion and put a stop to this bloodshed and enormous expenditure.

Why can’t the golden chance be clutched to say to the whole South, ‘Good!--you rebel,--you are no longer slaveholders, nor can you ever be again.’ How it would ring round the world, and transcendently through Heaven!

Hints have come up from the West, and intimations, vague, undetermined, from the East, before; but it has been left for you to define, announce, and defend a logical policy, and you have accomplished your task.

Our Proslavery education is costing a great deal,--it threatens to cost us our country!

Nobody could espouse such a cause, and feel that its triumph was essential to save the country from prolonged bloodshed, without effort and anxiety corresponding in some measure to the transcendent interests involved.

Its simple dignity arrests attention and commands admiration and respect.

We see him voluntarily renouncing a high professional office under the crown to take his place in the forum as a private citizen, to oppose, without reward, the odious violations of the liberties of the people by means of Writs of…

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of country.

They convince and awe, and yet the royal tribunal dare not decide.

It prevaricates and postpones; but the victory is won, the odious measure is abandoned forever, and the orator’s utterances have lighted up a flame which Independence alone can ever quench.

We see him hurling defiance at the minions of power who with secret malevolence assailed his reputation.

The crime against the person added to its atrocity a greater crime against the soul, dooming it to pursue its earthly career in sadness and gloom.

It is the necessary result of barbarism, in all its phases, to furnish historic parallels by reproducing itself in viler forms.

Not a century elapsed, and a similar atrocity is enacted in the Senate Chamber of the United States.

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