I will tell the truth.

A large majority of people in the Southern states do not consider slavery as an evil.

Let the gentleman go and travel in that quarter of the Union; let him go from neighborhood to neighborhood, and he will find that this is the fact.

Some gentlemen appear to legislate for the sake of appearances....

I should like to know what honor you will derive from a law that will be broken every day of your lives."[29] Mr.Stanton said with an air of deprecation on behalf of his state of Rhode Island: "I wish the law made so strong as to prevent this trade in future; but I cannot believe that a man ought to be hung for only stealing a negro.