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And here, let me say, is the only security for Slavery in the Slave States, as for Freedom in the Free States.
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He claims that the same principles that protect slavery also protect freedom, highlighting a duality in rights.
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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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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