William Seward: “Fellow-citizens: I will detain you no longer by this faint and feeble tribute to the illustrious dead.”

From and after the fourth day of July, 1842, there shall be, throughout the United States, NO HEREDITARY SLAVERY, but on and after that day every child born within the United States shall be FREE.

How long emancipation may be delayed, is among the things concealed from our knowledge, but not so the certain result.

That freedom and that security required that the nations of Europe should relax their grasp on the American Continent.

Stoicism, that had no charity for error, never converted any human society to virtue; Christianity, that remembers the true nature of man, has encompassed a large portion of the globe.