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This bond of national faith, this pledge of national honor, stood in the road of their ambition.
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He emphasizes the conflict between national honor and the ambitions of slavery advocates.
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Such was the sentiment of North Carolina in 1774, as to the evil and great wrong of slavery.
I believe that no cancer on the physical body was ever more certain, steady, and fatal, in its progress, than is the cancer of slavery on the political body of the State of Virginia.
I repeat again, that it would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellow beings were emancipated.
Instead of supporting freedom, does it not advocate slavery and oppression?
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