William Seward: “Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.”

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

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.

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.

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.