We are told, indeed, by the learned doctors of the nullification school, that color operates as a forfeiture of the rights of human nature: that a dark skin turns a man into a chattel; that crispy hair transforms a human being into a four-footed beast.
He critiques the nullification argument that dehumanizes individuals based on race, highlighting its absurdity.
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They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.
Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.
May the Ruler of the universe preserve you from such degradation! 'Freedom!
Texas and slavery are interwoven in every banner floating on the Democratic breeze. 'Freedom or death' should be inscribed on ours.
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