I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.