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Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.