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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…
- 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…
- God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation…
- Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to…
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