Henry Ward Beecher: “They are working men, and work is flavored to the Southerner with ideas of ignominy, of meanness, of vulgar lowness.”

It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.

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.

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

And so great are the achievements of labor that everybody honors it.