It seems to me that no true lover of human freedom can read that address and those resolutions intelligently, and understand their full scope and bearing, without being struck down by conviction, as suddenly as was St.
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Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
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