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It is a great thing to us, because we are held responsible for it by the whole civilized world.
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He emphasizes the moral responsibility of the north regarding the existence of slavery.
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But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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