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

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

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.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how.

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.