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Mar 17, 1865

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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Mar 17, 1865

Or, if one out of four will, for his own freedom fight to keep the other three in slavery, he ought to be a slave for his selfish meanness.

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Mar 7, 1865

but whereas information has recently been received which affords reasonable grounds to expect that Her Britannic Majesty's Government and the executive and legislative branches of the government of Canada have taken and will continue to…

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Apr 11, 1865

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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