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We degrade and disgrace ourselves; we degrade and disgrace our constituents and the country.
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Seward: “We degrade and disgrace ourselves; we degrade and disgrace our constituents and the country.”
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Seward warns about the consequences of the House's dysfunction on its reputation and that of the nation.
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That freedom and that security required that the nations of Europe should relax their grasp on the American Continent.
For the rest, the work of emancipation abides the action, whether it be slow or fast, of the moral sense of the American people.
From and after the fourth day of July, 1842, there shall be, throughout the United States, NO HEREDITARY SLAVERY, but on and after that day every child born within the United States shall be FREE.
How long emancipation may be delayed, is among the things concealed from our knowledge, but not so the certain result.
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