Slavery and democracy--especially a democracy founded, as ours is, on the rights of man--would seem to be incompatible with each other; and yet, at this time, the democracy of the country is supported chiefly, if not entirely, by slavery.
Quincy highlights the inherent conflict between slavery and democracy in the United States.
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