Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government (the United States) cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.

Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Jay, and the great men of that day. . . left each State perfectly free to do as it pleased on the subject of slavery. Why can it not exist on the same principles on which our fathers made it?. . .

At the time the Constitution was framed, there were thirteen (13) States in the Union, twelve (12) of which were slaveholding States and one (1) free State.

Of course, the twelve (12) slaveholding States would have overruled the one (1) free State, and slavery would have been fastened by a Constitutional provision on every inch of the American Republic. . .

Here I assert that uniformity in the local laws and institutions of the different States is neither possible or desirable.

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"I do not expect"

His heart was broken

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That silence was loud

“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania…” — Martin Luther King