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Slavery
And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus [through slavery] to trample on the rights of the other…
Slavery is . . . an atrocious debasement of human nature.
Why keep alive the question of slavery? It is admitted by all to be a great evil.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it [slavery].
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented by all the southern patriots of the Revolution.
I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in . . . abhorrence.
