Neither Current Events Nor History

Among Our Neighbors Of Central And Southern America, We See The Caucasian Mingled With The Indian And The African. They Have The Forms Of Free Government, Because They Have Copied Them. To Its Benefits They Have Not Attained, Because That Standard Of Civilization Is Above Their Race. Revolution Succeeds Revolution, And The Country Mourns That Some Petty Chief May Triumph, And Through A Sixty Days' Government Ape The Rulers Of The Earth.

My Own Convictions As To Negro Slavery Are Strong. It Has Its Evils And Abuses...we Recognize The Negro As God And God's Book And God's Laws, In Nature, Tell Us To Recognize Him - Our Inferior, Fitted Expressly For Servitude...you Cannot Transform The Negro Into Anything One-tenth As Useful Or As Good As What Slavery Enables Them To Be.

It Was One Of The Compromises Of The Constitution That The Slave Property In The Southern States Should Be Recognized As Property Throughout The United States.

Let Men Not Ask What The Law Requires, But Give Whatever Freedom Demands.

Obstacles May Retard, But They Cannot Long Prevent The Progress Of A Movement Sanctified By Its Justice, And Sustained By A Virtuous People .