I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
The government continues to erode our freedom.
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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.
Government must continue to live within its means.
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
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