Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, ...by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The slave-ship is on her way, crowded with its dying victims; new cargoes are being added in mid-ocean; a small crew of slaveholde...rs, countenanced by a large body of passengers, is smothering four millions under the hatches, and yet the politician asserts that the only proper way by which deliverance is to be obtained is by "the quiet diffusion of the sentiments of humanity," without any "outbreak." As if the sentiments of humanity were ever found unaccompanied by its deeds.... What is that I hear cast overboard? The bodies of the dead that have found deliverance. That is the way we are "diffusing" humanity, and its sentiments with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, th...e gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nitrates and phosphates for ammunition. The seeds of war. They're loading a full cargo of death. And when that ship takes it home,... the world will die a little more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as s...laves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark s...ides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,... I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »