Josiah Quincy: “In a country where manual labor is performed by slaves, that of freemen is dishonored.”

He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.

Texas and slavery are interwoven in every banner floating on the Democratic breeze. 'Freedom or death' should be inscribed on ours.

Union!' be this the watchword of your camp; and if Ate, hot from hell, will come and cry 'Havoc!' fight--fight and conquer, under the banner of universal freedom.

Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.