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Rarely have good and evil been mixed on such a scale.
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He reflects on the unusual mixture of positive and negative aspects within a significant legislative measure.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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