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I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
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The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
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The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
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We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
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God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
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But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.
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To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
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Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
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It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
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There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
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