Let Us Render The Tyrant No Aid.

Fortune May Crowd A Man's Life With Fortunate Circumstances And Happy Opportunities, But They Will, As We All Know, Avail Him Nothing Unless He Makes A Wise And Vigorous Use Of Them.

Self-made Men Are The Men Who Owe Little Or Nothing To Birth, Relationship, Friendly Surroundings; To Wealth Inherited Or To Early Approved Means Of Education; Who Are What They Are, Without The Aid Of Any Favoring Conditions By Which Other Men Usually Rise In The World And Achieve Great Results.

Immense Wealth, And Its Lavish Expenditure, Fill The Great House With All That Can Please The Eye, Or Tempt The Taste. Here, Appetite, Not Food, Is The Great Desideratum.

I Have No Accurate Knowledge Of My Age, Never Having Seen Any Authentic Record Containing It.

From My Earliest Recollection, I Date The Entertainment Of A Deep Conviction That Slavery Would Not Always Be Able To Hold Me Within Its Foul Embrace; And In The Darkest Hours Of My Career In Slavery, This Living Word Of Faith And Spirit Of Hope Departed Not From Me, But Remained Like Ministering Angels To Cheer Me Through The Gloom. This Good Spirit Was From God, And To Him I Offer Thanksgiving And Praise.