William Seward: “If the reading of a paper was to be suppressed in his person, so help him God, he would only consent to it as a matter…”

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

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

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.

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.