Now, in all sincerity, and in all kindness, I ask our southern brethren what there is to them so valuable and desirable in retaining slavery here, as to be a compensation for all the pain and evil which its existence inflicts upon the north?
He questions the value that southern states find in maintaining slavery, given its detrimental effects on the north.
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