But despotism is ever restless and grasping; but twenty-five years rolled by--a very short period in the life of a nation--ere Texas was admitted to the Union, that slavery propagandists could have a wider field for their operations.
He critiques the relentless expansion of slavery, exemplified by the admission of Texas into the Union.
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Calumny and vituperation held high carnival in the legislative halls of this great nation.
Was it a mere speculation, a wild fancy, that the framers of the Constitution would not admit that there could be such a thing as property in man?
Resolved, that the abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in these colonies, where it was improperly introduced in their infant state.
Such was the sentiment of North Carolina in 1774, as to the evil and great wrong of slavery.
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