A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.Salmon P. Chase
All men are born equally free.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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