“ Here we can read with others, of this knowledge slavery can not wholly deprive us. Here we know that we ought to be free agents! Here we feel the dignity of human nature. Here we feel the passions and desires of men, though checked by the rod of slavery. ”

“ Thus, often, and in vain, is the infant's sigh for the nurturing care of its bereaved parent. And thus do the ties of nature and blood become victims, to cherish the vanity and luxury of a fellow mortal! ”

“ And as freedom inspires a noble confidence and gives the mind an emulation to view in the noblest efforts of enterprise, and as justice and humanity are the result of your deliberations, we fondly hope that the eye of pity and the heart of justice may commiserate our situation and put us upon the equality of freemen and give us an opportunity of evincing to the world our love of freedom, by exerting ourselves in her cause in opposing the efforts of tyranny and oppression over the country in which we ourselves have been so long injuriously enslaved. ”