If the south wishes to dissolve the Union, let them do it, and at the end of thirty years there will be no slave in all their borders.

No, this is nothing but a clumsy trick of the politicians; and if any one of them could be nominated for the presidency, we should hear nothing more from him about any deluge which threatens to submerge the Union.

Let us show to the working-man that those who are ready to make slaves of his fellow-beings for lucre will be equally ready to make a slave of him whenever interest shall supply the temptation.

Fellow-citizens, it has been asked why we are assembled here to-day, and not in the Hall consecrated to liberty.

It is because the doors of that hall have been closed to Liberty knocking for admission.

When the court house is in chains, Faneuil Hall may well be dumb.

Those chains which girt the courts of justice are but typical of the chains which tyrannous men are striving to put upon our lips.

This is not the first temple that has been unrighteously invaded and taken possession of by money changers and those who sold doves,--doves! doves!!

But, gentlemen, at this hour of trial, at this time of peril to great principles, when the lights upon earth seem to be going out around us, and we must look for guidance to the lights above,--at this hour, I say, of trial and of peril, it…

They knew, as you all know, how happy I should be if I could do any thing to deepen or to diffuse a feeling of devotion to human freedom.

It seems to me that no true lover of human freedom can read that address and those resolutions intelligently, and understand their full scope and bearing, without being struck down by conviction, as suddenly as was St.

Whatever the design of those papers may have been, their whole argument and office are to wheel the Whig party into line, to fight the battles of slavery.

A party of Freedom has existed in all ages of the world, but a mightier party of oppression has been arrayed against it.

And though the lovers of human liberty have consisted of the greatest and best men who have ever lived, yet they have been overborne by violence, crushed and trampled upon by power, buried in dungeons, gibbeted on scaffolds, burnt at the…

The possessors of power and wealth seek to perpetuate these advantages in their families, their clan, or their caste; and over almost all the earth they have established dynasties for governments, landed or moneyed feudalisms for lords…

It was adopted, however, with the universal understanding that the healing influence of time would purge away the virus of the disease; and with no apprehension of the now undeniable fact, that the disease would be allowed to spread, like…

But instead of the sounder parts diffusing healthful influences, and gradually eradicating the disease, the diseased parts have shot their infection through all the veins and organs of the body politic, until, from the heart to the…

Or to leave metaphor for literal speech: The constitution of the United States gave the most comprehensive and fundamental guaranties in favor of freedom, with here and there only an exception in behalf of slavery.

It allowed “persons” who were held to service or labor and who should escape into other states to be retaken, but it also secured the trial by jury to every “person” who should claim it on any question of life or liberty, and on all…

But despotism and wealth have almost inconceivable advantages in a contest with the honest and toiling millions.

In Europe, they have the military force,--a soulless machine, always ready to be turned against the people who are made to maintain it.

They have also the whole ecclesiastical power, which leans upon the government for support, and fights with spiritual weapons for the masters whose plunder it shares.

Their influence bought over the slave power, by surrendering all our new territories to the invasion of slavery, and by giving fifty thousand square miles of free New Mexican territory to be turned into Texan slave territory, thus adding…

And, as though the means of patronage and seducement on so magnificent a scale were not sufficient, a private purse, almost up to the figure of fifty thousand dollars, was presented to the “foremost man of all this world” in his apostasy…

So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.