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- ... the adoption of the measures I advocated at the outset of the war, the arming of the negroes, the slaves of the rebels, is the only way left on earth in which these rebels can be exterminated. They will find that they must treat those States now outside of the Union as conquered provinces and settle them with new men, and drive the present rebels as exiles from this country.... They have such determination, energy, and endurance, that nothing but actual extermination or exile or starvation will ever induce them to surrender to this Government. (en)
- AbolitionYes! abolish everything on the face of the earth, but this Union; free every slaveslay every traitorburn every rebel mansion if these things are necessary to preserve this temple of freedom to the world and to our posterity. (en)
- It is my purpose nowhere in these remarks to make personal reproaches; I entertain no ill-will toward any human being, nor any brute, that I know of, not even the [Democratic] skunk across the way to which I referred. Least of all would I reproach the South. I honor her courage and fidelity. Even in a bad, a wicked cause, she shows a united front. All her sons are faithful to the cause of human bondage, because it is their cause. But the Norththe poor, timid, mercenary, driveling Northhas no such united defenders of her cause, although it is the cause of human liberty... She is offered up a sacrifice to propitiate southern tyrannyto conciliate southern treason. (en)
- I repose in this quiet and secluded spot
Not from any natural preference for solitude
But, finding other Cemeteries limited as to Race
:by Charter Rules
I have chosen this that I might illustrate
:in my death
The Principles which I advocated
:through a long life;
EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR (en)
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