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"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
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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."
"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
"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."
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
"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."
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
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"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."
"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."
"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."
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
"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."
"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
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