"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."
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"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."
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"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
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"But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America."
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"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."
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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."
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"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
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"I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric."
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