My feelings are at my home.  My wife and my children are dear to my heart.  But, Sir, I have counted the cost.  I am ready to die, if need be, for the oppressed of my race.  But slavery must die; and when my country shall have passed through the terrible conflict which the destruction of slavery must cost, and when the history of the great struggle shall be candidly written, the rescuers of Jim Gray will be considered as having done honor to God, to humanity, and to themselves.

I am told there is no appeal from this Court; yet I do appeal to the Court of High Heaven, when Judge Drummond and Judge Caton, the rescuer and the rescued, shall all have to stand at the judgment-seat of the Most High.

I have, Sir, endeavored to obey the Divine law and all the laws of my country that do not conflict with the laws of my God.  My humble wish is, that it may then appear that I have done my duty.  All I wish to be written on my tomb-stone is, “He feared God and loved his fellow-men.”