Whatever may have been the arguments favorable for the continuance of the institution of slavery, the destruction of it has rendered them nugatory, and but few of those who once used them could now be found to favor its resurrection.
Woodhull argues that the arguments for slavery have been rendered invalid by its abolition.
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