Henry Ward Beecher: “If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.”

But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far to come ere they are born!

I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.

And this is the reason why a free, unobstructed Bible always works toward human rights.

There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man--his place, rights, duties and relations.