I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
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When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.Gerrit Smith
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
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There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.
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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
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Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
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