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"I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. 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 poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
"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."
"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
"As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men."
"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."
"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
"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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