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As in population, so also in the value of property, real and personal, do the Free States excel the Slave States.
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This statement highlights the economic superiority of Free States compared to Slave States in terms of property value.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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