All the states south of the River Ohio, and west of Pennsylvania and Delaware, will be peopled with slaves; and the establishment of new states west of the River Mississippi will serve to extend slavery, instead of freedom, over that boundless region.
He predicts that new states in the west will be populated by slaves, extending slavery's reach.
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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.
They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.
He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.
The spirit of freedom and the spirit of slavery are drawing together for the deadly conflict of arms.
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