While slavery exists, and the union of these states endures, every American citizen must bear the chagrin of hearing his country branded before the world as a nation of liars and hypocrites; and behold his cherished flag pointed at with the utmost scorn and derision.
Douglass asserts that as long as slavery persists, American citizens will endure the shame of their nation being globally condemned as hypocritical.
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It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
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