William Seward: “He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below.”

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.

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

That freedom and that security required that the nations of Europe should relax their grasp on the American Continent.

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