On the record
It is, then, on the testimony of slave-masters, solemnly, legislatively, judicially attested in the very law itself, that I now arraign this institution as an outrage upon man and his Creator.
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He condemns slavery as an affront to humanity based on the testimony of those who uphold it.
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