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On the mere statement, the absurdity is so unspeakable as to recall the kindred pretension of Slavery, that, because commerce is lawful, therefore commerce in human flesh is lawful also.
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He draws a parallel between absurd legal arguments and the justification of slavery.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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