The Compact Which Exists Between The North

Be Faithful, Be Vigilant, Be Untiring In Your Efforts To Break Every Yoke, And Let The Oppressed Go Free. Come What May - Cost What It May - Inscribe On The Banner Which You Unfurl To The Breeze, As Your Religious And Political Motto - "no Compromise With Slavery! No Union With Slaveholders

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.

There Is No Safety Where There Is No Strength; No Strength Without Union; No Union Without Justice; No Justice Where Faith And Truth Are Wanting. The Right To Be Free Is A Truth Planted In The Hearts Of Men.

Gradualism In Theory Is Perpetuity In Practice.

And Now Let Me Give The Sentiment Which Has Been, And Ever Will Be, The Governing Passion Of My Soul: 'liberty For Each, For All, And Forever!'