The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
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Gradually, you can deprive him of these and for every hundred thousand productive laborers he loses, you may have a hundred thousand soldiers.Robert Dale Owen
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.
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Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.
Robert Dale Owen
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
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There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
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Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.
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