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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
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.
I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.