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How long emancipation may be delayed, is among the things concealed from our knowledge, but not so the certain result.
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Seward: “How long emancipation may be delayed, is among the things concealed from our knowledge, but not so the certain result.”
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Seward acknowledges the uncertainty of when emancipation will occur but asserts its inevitable outcome.
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Fellow-citizens: There are moments in the progress of time which are the counters of whole ages.
Without strength, and activity and vigor of body, the brightest mental excellencies will be eclipsed and obscured.
But, were the breath which now gives utterance to my feelings the last vital air I should draw, my expiring words to you and your children should be, Independence and Union forever!
No man was a more ardent lover of liberty, or was more anxious that its institutions should be established throughout the earth, at the earliest practicable moment.
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