The Success Of Any Great Moral Enterprise

Our Country Is The World, Our Countrymen Are All Mankind. We Love The Land Of Our Nativity, Only As We Love All Other Lands. The Interests, Rights, And Liberties Of American Citizens Are No More Dear To Us Than Are Those Of The Whole Human Race. Hence We Can Allow No Appeal To Patriotism, To Revenge Any National Insult Or Injury.

We May Be Personally Defeated, But Our Principles Never!

To Say That Everything In The Bible Is To Be Believed , Simply Because It Is Found In That Volume, Is Equally Absurd And Pernicious... To Discard A Portion Of Scripture Is Not Necessarily To Reject The Truth, But May Be The Highest Evidence That One Can Give Of His Love Of Truth.

What Shall Be Said, Then, Of Those Who Insist Upon Ignoring The Question Of Slavery As Not Involved In This Deadly Feud, And Maintain That The Only Issue Is, The Support Of The Government And The Preservation Of The Union? Surely, They Are "fools And Blind"; For It Is Slaveholders Alone Who Have Conspired To Seize The One, And Overturn The Other. As Long As The Enslavement Of A Single Human Being Is Sanctioned In The Land, The Curse Of God Will Rest Upon It.

The Standard Of Matrimony Is Erected By Affection And Purity, And Does Not Depend Upon The Height, Or Bulk, Or Color, Or Wealth, Or Poverty Of Individuals. Water Will Seek Its Level; Nature Will Have Free Course; And Heart Will Answer To Heart.