William Seward: “There are events, the monuments of which, surviving every other memorial of human existence, eternize the nation to…”

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

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

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.

But power, confessedly derived from the people, must be exercised in obedience to their will, and must be resigned to them again, at least in death.