To decline aiding those who proposed to circumscribe slavery because they did not propose its destruction, was as if a soldier should refuse to storm an outpost on the ground that it was not the citadel.
Checking the advance of an enemy was one step toward driving him off the field, and a rusty cannon might be worth several bright-barreled muskets in holding him at bay.

The Lord punished Israel by the hand of Jehu and Hazael, both wicked men.

Slavery was bursting her bounds, coming over on us like the sea on Holland.

One very dirty shovel might be worth a hundred silver teaspoons in keeping back the waters, and this Free Soil party could do more to check its advance than a hundred of the little Liberty Party with that pure patriot, Gerrit Smith, at its head.

In doing right, take all the help you can get, even from Satan.