William Seward: “We not merely deny hereditary claims to civil trust, but regard even hereditary distinction with jealousy.”

The recital of heroic actions loses its chief value, if we cannot discover the principles in which they were born.

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.

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.

For the rest, the work of emancipation abides the action, whether it be slow or fast, of the moral sense of the American people.