A Man's Country Is The World.

It [slavery] Has Exercised Absolute Mastery Over The American Church. . . . With The Bible In Their Hands, Her Priesthood Have Attempted To Prove That Slavery Came Down From God Out Of Heaven. They Have Become Slaveholders And Dealers In Human Flesh.

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.

Be Faithful, Be Vigilant, Be Untiring In Your Efforts To Break Every Yoke, And Let The Oppressed Go Free. Come What May - Cost What It May - Inscribe On The Banner Which You Unfurl To The Breeze, As Your Religious And Political Motto - "no Compromise With Slavery! No Union With Slaveholders

I Will Be As Harsh As Truth And As Uncompromising As Justice.

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.