Remember, gentlemen, you have, by your votes, in this free State of Ohio, so treated a part of her people, these black men and women.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

Well, what are you going to do about it?

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

You can never conquer us, we will die first.

As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.