I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
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.
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