William Seward: “It depends not on the zeal and firmness only of the reformers, but on their wisdom and moderation also.”

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.

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.

The perils of the enterprize are already passed--its difficulties have already been removed--when it shall have been accomplished it will be justly regarded as the last noble effort which rendered the Republic imperishable.

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.