On the record
As a record of purpose and aspiration it will not be forgotten.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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