William Seward: “Adams said, that so long as freedom of speech was allowed to him as a member of that House, he would call up that…”

Slavery therefore must be restrained, and, without violence or injustice, must be abolished.

The perils of the enterprize are already passed--its difficulties have already been removed--when it shall have been accomplished it will be justly regarded as the last noble effort which rendered the Republic imperishable.

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.

Let it be remembered, that it has ever been the pride and the boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature.