I Need Say No More, To Prove

Our Political And Constitutional Rights, So Called, Are But The Natural And Inherent Rights Of Man, Asserted, Carried Out, And Secured By Modes Of Human Contrivance.

We Must Continue To Judge Of Slavery By What It Is, And Not By What You Tell Us It Will, Or May Be.

It, Sometimes, Suits The Slaveholders To Claim, That Their Slavery Is An Exclusively State Concern; And That The North Has, Therefore, Nothing To Do With It.

But I Love Honesty, And, Therefore; Do I Make Great Account Of Facts.

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.