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"I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society."
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"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."
"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
"Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man."
"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
"The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected."
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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