Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Whether we will or not, the question of Slavery is THE question, the all absorbing topic of the day.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.