Was it not enough that the country has been enabled to endure, in order to secure the great object of remaining in peace, insult after insult, outrage after outrage, and even that the Government should be insulted by foreign diplomatic characters, without doubts and suspicions being insinuated by members of this House? Pray, sir, let me ask this House, or the whole of the United States, what the President of the United States has ever done in any official character, among the many which he has filled with honor to himself and reputation to his country, that the correctness of his declarations, made through his Minister of State, should be disputed?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Dr. James W. Stone, an indefatigable member of the Free-Soil party, wrote:— "But I should not only fail to express my own feelings, but also the universal satisfaction here evinced, did I long delay to tell you, even if I have time to do nothing more, how great the enthusiasm is in your behalf, for your noble reply to the unworthy assaults from Pettit, whose name is more significant of his mental than of his physical calibre, from Butler the faithless, and from Clay the slave-hunter, et id omne genus .
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The French Republic, so friendly to the Government of the United States, had eagerly distributed placards describing the nefarious Colonel and his yacht.
— from A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

Now, by the Federal Constitution, slaves are mentioned only three times, and then not as slaves, but as ' persons ,' and the Supreme Court of the United States have expressly decided that slaves, so far as regards the United States, are persons, and not property .
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various