It Is Our Duty To Keep The

African Slavery, As It Exists In The United States, Is A Moral, A Social, And A Political Blessing.

My Own Convictions As To Negro Slavery Are Strong. It Has Its Evils And Abuses...we Recognize The Negro As God And God's Book And God's Laws, In Nature, Tell Us To Recognize Him - Our Inferior, Fitted Expressly For Servitude...you Cannot Transform The Negro Into Anything One-tenth As Useful Or As Good As What Slavery Enables Them To Be.

A Question Settled By Violence, Or In Disregard Of Law, Must Remain Unsettled Forever.

Truthfulness Is A Cornerstone In Character, And If It Be Not Firmly Laid In Youth, There Will Ever After Be A Weak Spot In The Foundation.

All We Ask Is To Be Let Alone.