Under this self-restraint he observed that slavery, unhappily, exists in the United States; that enlightened men in the states where it is permitted, and everywhere out of them, regret its existence among us, and seek for the means of limiting and of eradicating it.
Quincy reflects on the regrettable existence of slavery in the U.S. and the desire for its limitation and eradication.
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