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• ‟ God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

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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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• ‟ Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

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• ‟ My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

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• ‟ The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

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