An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of the Proceedings of the National and State Conventions on this Subject |
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... person is by the Constitution allowed his inalienable rights , and the free exercise of them , we should also hold , even if the Southern States were foreign nations , and we had no connection or interest with them , it would be our ...
... person is by the Constitution allowed his inalienable rights , and the free exercise of them , we should also hold , even if the Southern States were foreign nations , and we had no connection or interest with them , it would be our ...
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... person could have been found , that would have admitted it possible any one could , in this country , be driven about hither and thither , whether as sol- diers or as slaves , without being able to ask the reason why , or without having ...
... person could have been found , that would have admitted it possible any one could , in this country , be driven about hither and thither , whether as sol- diers or as slaves , without being able to ask the reason why , or without having ...
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... person , whether in or out of the abolition ranks ; but we have no sympathy with those who are so sensitive with regard to them on some points , and yet pay no sort of regard to them when certain other points are under consideration ...
... person , whether in or out of the abolition ranks ; but we have no sympathy with those who are so sensitive with regard to them on some points , and yet pay no sort of regard to them when certain other points are under consideration ...
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... person out of the slave States had any thing to do with slavery ; 2 that its abolition belongs solely to the States in which it exists ; that we have nothing more to do with it than if these States were foreign nations , and that we ...
... person out of the slave States had any thing to do with slavery ; 2 that its abolition belongs solely to the States in which it exists ; that we have nothing more to do with it than if these States were foreign nations , and that we ...
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... person whatever ; that , unless for crimes committed against the laws of society , and which laws must have an equal bearing upon all , a man cannot be restrained in his life , liberty , or pursuit of happi- ness ; and , consequently ...
... person whatever ; that , unless for crimes committed against the laws of society , and which laws must have an equal bearing upon all , a man cannot be restrained in his life , liberty , or pursuit of happi- ness ; and , consequently ...
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