William Seward: “There must be an end to this constant attempt to raise excitement, or the Union could not exist much longer.”

By the blessing of the Author of those rights, they have prevailed over all opposition, and form the basis of thirteen independent States.

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

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.

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