"If the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!"

"We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members."

"The fact is, the people of the South are not more in favor of slavery, than the people of the North are opposed to it."

"The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us... I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief.…"

"I have seen enough of slavery to know that it is a curse to the master as well as to the slave."