I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

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

We must have though a man who recognizes the slavery issue as being the living issue of the day; who does not hesitate to declare slavery a wrong, nor to deal with it as such; who believes in the power and duty of Congress to prevent the spread of it.

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.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is [in] his love of justice.

I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil