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The black banner of slavery is trailing in the dust.
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He uses a metaphor to illustrate the decline of slavery's power and influence.
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It will not be conceived, from these observations, that it is my wish to hold these unhappy people (negroes) in slavery.
Calumny and vituperation held high carnival in the legislative halls of this great nation.
Chairman, that God's sun does not shine upon a nobler, prouder, more prosperous, and elevated class of people, than the non-slaveholders of the South.
I repeat again, that it would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellow beings were emancipated.
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