The Way To Resumption Is To Resume.

What You Have Said, Mr. President, Fully Satisfies Me That You Have Given To Every Proposition Which Has Been Made, A Kind And Candid Consideration. And You Have Now Expressed The Conclusion To Which You Have Arrived, Clearly And Distinctly.

The Law Of The Creator, Which Invests Every Human Being With An Inalienable Title To Freedom, Cannot Be Repealed By Any Interior Law Which Asserts That Man Is Property.

There Came A Time In My Life When I Doubted The Divinity Of The Scriptures, And I Resolved As A Lawyer And A Judge I Would Try The Book As I Would Try Anything In The Courtroom, Taking Evidence For And Against. It Was A Long, Serious And Profound Study And Using The Same Principles Of Evidence In This Religious Matter As I Always Do In Secular Matters, I Have Come To The Decision That The Bible Is A Supernatural Book, That It Has Come From God, And That The Only Safety For The Human Race Is To Follow Its Teachings.

The Way To Resumption Is To Resume.

No More Slave States And No More Slave Territory.