My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.Gerrit Smith
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
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We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
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The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
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I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
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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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