No truth taught by our national history is more evident than this, that while slavery dominated the southern half of the Republic, and free institutions prevailed in the northern half, peace and harmony between the two sections were utterly and forever impossible.
He states that the existence of slavery made peace between the North and South impossible, highlighting the deep divisions in the nation.
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The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.