"Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I ..."

"If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, ..."

"In 1846 I was once elected to the lower House of Congress . Was not a candidate for reëlection. From 1849 to 1854, both..."