Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

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True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

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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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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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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

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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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I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

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There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

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As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

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The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

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