In All The Relations Of Life And

The More Men You Make Free, The More Freedom Is Strengthened, And The More Men You Give An Interest In The Welfare And Safety Of The State, The Greater Is The Security Of The State.

These Were Choice Documents To Me... They Gave Tongue To Interesting Thoughts Of My Own Soul, Which Had Frequently Flashed Through My Mind, And Died Away For Want Of Utterance.

No People To Whom Liberty Is Given Can Hold It As Firmly And Wear It As Grandly As Those Who Wrench Their Liberty From The Iron Hand Of The Tyrant.

Now, Take The Constitution According To Its Plain Reading, And I Defy The Presentation Of A Single Pro-slavery Clause In It. On The Other Hand It Will Be Found To Contain Principles And Purposes, Entirely Hostile To The Existence Of Slavery.

The Federal Government Was Never, In Its Essence, Anything But An Anti-slavery Government.