There are men who doubt this. There are men who believe that democracy, as a form of Government and a frame of life, is limited or measured by a kind of mystical and artificial fate - that, for some unexplained reason, tyranny and slavery have become the surging wave of the future - and that freedom is an ebbing tide. But we Americans know that this is not true.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.

In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

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.