"In the North most men have begun to think of the effect of slavery on the soul; in the South a vast majority are thinking of its effect on the pocket.

One stands for a moral and the other for a legal right." "But one is righter than the other," Samson insisted.
That evening Samson set down the events of the day in his book and quoted the dialogue in Offut's store in which he had had a part.

On the first of February, 1840, he put these words under the entry: "I wouldn't wonder if this was the first trip on the Underground Railroad.".