But, with these exceptions, poll the whole mass of Christian men, of every name, sect, or denomination, throughout the globe, and you will not hear a solitary voice deny that slavery is a wrong, a crime, and a curse.
Quincy asserts that the overwhelming majority of Christians worldwide recognize slavery as a moral wrong.
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Rather than live otherwise, I would wish to die before my time.
Adams deemed and maintained, was unconstitutional; and he called upon the supporters of the bill to point out the article, section, or paragraph, of the constitution, which authorized Congress to confer it on the President.
This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.
That it has exposed in broad day the overruling influence of the institution of domestic slavery upon the history and policy of the Union.
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