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But perhaps it would have been a wiser and bolder course to have persisted in the restriction on Missouri, until it should have terminated in a convention of the states to revise and amend the constitution.
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Quincy suggests that a more decisive stance against slavery in Missouri might have led to a constitutional convention.
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Rather than live otherwise, I would wish to die before my time.
The terms, indeed, in which such a character as Washington has repeatedly expressed himself concerning me, have left me nothing to wish, if they did not alarm me by their very strength.
That it has exposed in broad day the overruling influence of the institution of domestic slavery upon the history and policy of the Union.
No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
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