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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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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."
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"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."
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"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."
"I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill."
"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."
"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."
"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."
"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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