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She broke into the Ethiop’s home, as a wolf into a sheepfold at midnight.
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This metaphor highlights the violent intrusion of slavery into the lives of innocent people.
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Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
No man of common sense, who has observed this result, can doubt for a moment that the system of free labor promotes the growth and prosperity of states in a much higher degree than the system of slave labor.
Under such a practice with regard to indictments, coupled with such a practice in regard to bail, an accusation would be as fatal as crime itself, however innocent the accused might be.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
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