It should be your care therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children, and exalt their courage, to accelerate and animate their industry and activity, to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.
Seward advocates for the elevation of children's minds and virtues through education.
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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.
It depends not on the zeal and firmness only of the reformers, but on their wisdom and moderation also.
How long emancipation may be delayed, is among the things concealed from our knowledge, but not so the certain result.
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