There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

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.

How many of us teach our own children to be dignified, free? How many of us knowingly teach them to be poor? How many dignified, free men does our society, our world need?...