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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
"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."
"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
"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."
Explore more quotes by David Wilmot
"Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil."
"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race."
"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
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