We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.
Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.
You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.