Salmon P. Chase

"Congress was right in not limiting, by its reconstruction acts, the right of suffrage to whites; but wrong in the exclusion from suffrage of certain classes of citizens and all unable to take its pres…"

"For, what is slavery?  It is the complete and absolute subjection of one person to the control and disposal of another person, by legalized force.  We need not argue that no person can be, rightfully,…"

"True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, whereever it sees man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights."

"No more slave States; no slave Territories."

"When Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at…"

"The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States."

"The way to resumption is to resume."

"All that they seem to say is 'nigger, nigger, nigger'."