Slavery Will Not Be Overthrown Without Excitement,

To Say That Everything In The Bible Is To Be Believed , Simply Because It Is Found In That Volume, Is Equally Absurd And Pernicious... To Discard A Portion Of Scripture Is Not Necessarily To Reject The Truth, But May Be The Highest Evidence That One Can Give Of His Love Of Truth.

Better To Be Always In A Minority Of One With God - Branded As Madman, Incendiary, Fanatic, Heretic, Infidel - Frowned Upon By "the Powers That Be," And Mobbed By The Populace - Or Consigned Ignominiously To The Gallows, Like Him Whose "soul Is Marching On," Though His "body Lies Mouldering In The Grave," Or Burnt To Ashes At The Stake Like Wickliffe, Or Nailed To The Cross Like Him Who "gave Himself For The World," - In Defence Of The Right, Than Like Herod, Having The Shouts Of A Multitude Crying, "it Is The Voice Of A God, And Not Of A Man!"

With Reasonable Men, I Will Reason; With Humane Men I Will Plead; But To Tyrants I Will Give No Quarter, Nor Waste Arguments Where They Will Certainly Be Lost.

What Shall Be Said, Then, Of Those Who Insist Upon Ignoring The Question Of Slavery As Not Involved In This Deadly Feud, And Maintain That The Only Issue Is, The Support Of The Government And The Preservation Of The Union? Surely, They Are "fools And Blind"; For It Is Slaveholders Alone Who Have Conspired To Seize The One, And Overturn The Other. As Long As The Enslavement Of A Single Human Being Is Sanctioned In The Land, The Curse Of God Will Rest Upon It.

It Is For Us To Discharge The High Duties That Devolve On Us, And Carry Our Race Onward. To Be No Better, No Wiser, No Greater Than The Past Is To Be Little And Foolish And Bad; It Is To Misapply Noble Means, To Sacrifice Glorious Opportunities For The Performance Of Sublime Deeds, To Become Cumberers Of The Ground.