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Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented to you the…

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At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but…
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of…
The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her…
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent…
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's…
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as…
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous…
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There…
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in…
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them…

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What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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