 But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts. |
| It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed. |
| When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. |
| I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. |
| I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society. |
| Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. |
| As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. |
| To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. |
| Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. |
| My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. |
| To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense. |
| I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. |
| The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. |
| It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. |
| But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America. |
| We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. |
| Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. |
| I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. |
| But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash. |
| The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him. |
