Slave Quotations

Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.