Sir, our forefathers would not have hesitated an hour. They found slavery existing here, and they left it only because they could not remove it.
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You may separate slavery from South Carolina, and the state will still remain but if you subvert freedom there, the state will cease to exist.William H. Seward
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
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To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.
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The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
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This must be so, because, when the Constitution was adopted, twelve of the thirteen states were slave states, and so there was no equilibrium.
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Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.
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