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"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
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"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."
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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
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"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."
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"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."
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"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union."
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"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."
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"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
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"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
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"If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."
Man
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
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"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."
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"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
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"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
Slavery
"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."
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"Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs."
Man
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