I Am A Plain Man,

I Prefer, In A Word, The Republican System, Because It Comes Up More Nearly To God's System.

I Need Say No More, To Prove That Slavery Is Entirely Unlike The Servitude In The Patriarchal Families.

We Must Continue To Judge Of Slavery By What It Is, And Not By What You Tell Us It Will, Or May Be.

There Is Room In Our Ranks For The Old And Decrepit, As Well As The Young And Vigorous.

It Is Not To Be Disguised, That A War Has Broken Out Between The North And The South. - Political And Commercial Men Are Industriously Striving To Restore Peace: But The Peace, Which They Would Effect, Is Superficial, False, And Temporary.