I replied, 'Mr.Chairman, taking for my warrant an inspired piece of advice as to the best way of answering a man according to his folly, it would be just, should I reply to the gentleman's question, Yes, I do.

But the gentleman, I perceive, is too much excited to hear me.' "He had flung himself round in his seat, put his elbow on the back of it, and his hand through his hair; he then flung himself round in the opposite direction, and put his arm and hand as before, and he blew his nose with a sound like a trombone.
"I then said, 'Mr.Chairman, if all that the gentleman meant to ask was, Do you find any countenance under any circumstances, for the relation of master and slave in the divine legation of Moses,--and this was all which, as a fair man, not carried away by a gust of passion, he should have asked me,--my answer was correct and proper.

If he wished to know my views of what is right and proper as to the marriage relation of our slaves, he should have put the question in a different shape.

But first, Sir,' said I, 'if he dislikes the twenty-first chapter of Exodus, his controversy must be with his God, not with me.

Sinai was, let me remind him, more of a place than Bunker Hill.