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In its stipulations for Slavery, it was justly repugnant to the conscience of the North, and ought never to have been made; but on that side it has been performed.
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He critiques the Missouri Compromise for its stipulations on slavery, which he believes were morally wrong.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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