I leave the matter entirely to yourself.

I also acknowledge your rights and my obligations under the Constitution, in regard to your slaves.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down, and caught, and carried back to their stripes and unrequited toil; but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip on a steamboat from Louisville to St.Louis.You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio, there were on board ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons.

That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave border.