I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God’s system.

Truth and mercy require the exertion – never the suppression, of man’s noble rights and powers.

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 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.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source – from favor and grace of God.

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.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

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.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.