This, you know, all history teaches.

Your fanatics say it should not be so; they talk about liberty, equality, and fraternity, and put guns and pikes into the hands of the inferior race, here, to help them 'rise in the scale of being,' as they term it.

What God means to accomplish in this matter of slavery I do not see.
"Suppose, merely for illustration," said she, "that cotton should be superseded.

Vast numbers of our slaves might then be useless here.

What would become of them?
We should implore the North to relieve us of them, in part.