You Have To Take Power. No One

The Constitutional Framers Were Peace Men; But They Preferred Revolution To Peaceful Submission To Bondage. They Were Quiet Men; But They Did Not Shrink From Agitating Against Oppression. They Showed Forbearance; But That They Knew Its Limits. They Believed In Order; But Not In The Order Of Tyranny. With Them, Nothing Was "settled" That Was Not Right. With Them, Justice, Liberty And Humanity Were "final;" Not Slavery And Oppression.

Men Of Color, To Arms! The Case Is Before You. This Is Our Golden Opportunity. Let Us Accept It, And Forever Wipe Out The Dark Reproaches Unsparingly Hurled Against Us By Our Enemies. Let Us Win For Ourselves The Gratitude Of Our Country, And The Best Blessings Of Our Posterity Through All Time.

Our Destiny Is Largely In Our Hands.

Right Is Of No Sex, Truth Is Of No Color.

Abolish Slavery Tomorrow, And Not A Sentence Or Syllable Of The Constitution Need Be Altered. It Was Purposely So Framed As To Give No Claim, No Sanction To The Claim, Of Property In Man. If In Its Origin Slavery Had Any Relation To The Government, It Was Only As The Scaffolding To The Magnificent Structure, To Be Removed As Soon As The Building Was Completed.