True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
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But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.
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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
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