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“Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.”

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I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

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My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

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I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

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