Liberty For All; Chains For None.

Everybody Has Asked The Question, ... 'what Shall We Do With The Negro?' I Have Had But One Answer From The Beginning. Do Nothing With Us! You're Doing With Us Has Already Played The Mischief With Us. Do Nothing With Us! If The Apples Will Not Remain On The Tree Of Their Own Strength, ... Let Them Fall! I Am Not For Tying Or Fastening Them On The Tree In Any Way, Except By Nature's Plan, And If They Will Not Stay There, Let Them Fall. And If The Negro Cannot Stand On His Own Legs, Let Him Fall Also.

Let Me Give You A Word Of The Philosophy Of Reform. The Whole History Of The Progress Of Human Liberty Shows That All Concessions Yet Made To Her August Claims, Have Been Born Of Earnest Struggle. The Conflict Has Been Exciting, Agitating, All-absorbing, And For The Time Being, Putting All Other Tumults To Silence. It Must Do This Or It Does Nothing. If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress.

...there Are At The Present Moment Many Colored Men In The Confederate Army...as Real Soldiers, Having Muskets On Their Shoulders, And Bullets In Their Pockets, Ready To Shoot Down Loyal Troops, And Do All That Soldiers May Do To Destroy The Federal Government...there Were Such Soldiers At Manassas And They Are Probably There Still.

I Ask You...to Adopt The Principles Proclaimed By Yourselves, By Your Revolutionary Fathers, And By The Old Bell In Independence Hall.

The Church Of This Country Is Not Only Indifferent To The Wrongs Of The Slave, It Actually Takes Sides With The Oppressors.... For My Part, I Would Say, Welcome Infidelity! Welcome Atheism! Welcome Anything! In Preference To The Gospel, As Preached By These Divines! They Convert The Very Name Of Religion Into An Engine Of Tyranny And Barbarous Cruelty, And Serve To Confirm More Infidels, In This Age, Than All The Infidel Writings Of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, And Bolingbroke Put Together Have Done!