"The very best thing for the black man is the very best thing for the white man."

"The murderer is better protected than the man without crime. The robber is better protected than the robbed."

"Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man. He w…"

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning."

"The fact is, the people of the South are not more in favor of slavery, than the people of the North are opposed to it."