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The instant you do, they have us under again; all our labour is lost, and sooner or later must be done over....
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This quote illustrates the speaker's belief in the inevitability of conflict if compromises are made regarding slavery.
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The heart of the country is fixed on higher and nobler things.
He set the custom of dictating bills in chancery to an amanuensis, doing it with such accuracy that a word had seldom to be changed.
Its attitude was strong, defiant, and its only purpose apparently was to create a public sentiment hostile to the extension of slavery.
The act and the veto amounted to an appeal to the people, and in an instant the country was on fire.
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