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It is proposed not merely to continue this institution where it now exists, but to extend it to the Pacific Ocean,--to spread it over the vast slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
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Mann warns against the expansion of slavery into new territories, highlighting its potential consequences.
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Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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