I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.
But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.
