William Seward: “No German Prince could now send a man, or a musket, to war against its principles.”

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

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

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.

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