To No Human Charter Am I Indebted

God Cannot Approve Of A System Of Servitude, In Which The Master Is Guilty Of Assuming Absolute Power - Of Assuming God's Place And Relation Towards His Fellow-men.

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

The Southern Slave Would Obey God In Respect To Marriage, And Also To The Reading And Studying Of His Word. But This, As We Have Seen, Is Forbidden Him.

To No Human Charter Am I Indebted For My Rights.

But I Love Honesty, And, Therefore; Do I Make Great Account Of Facts.