A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers

Their wordsA government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

Their wordsThe law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. They are the lovers of law and order, who observe the law when the government breaks it.

Their wordsWhoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world, who can discern only law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge.

Their wordsI believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period.

Their wordsI would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Their wordsBut there is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

Their wordsThe fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls,-the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Their wordsThe effect of a good government is to make life more valuable,-of a bad one, to make it less valuable.