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If Slavery Be A Sin, It Is Not Yours. It Does Not Rest On Your Action For Its Origin, On Your Consent For Its Existence. It Is A Common Law Right To Property In The Service Of Man; Its Origin Was Divine Decree.

Without Doing Injustice To The Living, It May Safely Be Asserted That Our Loss Is Irreparable; And That Among The Shining Hosts Of The Great And Good Who Now Cluster Around The Banner Of The Country, There Exists No Purer Spirit, No More Heroic Soul, Than That Of The Illustrious Man Whose Death I Join You In Lamenting.

Pray Excuse Me. I Cannot Take It.

Among Our Neighbors Of Central And Southern America, We See The Caucasian Mingled With The Indian And The African. They Have The Forms Of Free Government, Because They Have Copied Them. To Its Benefits They Have Not Attained, Because That Standard Of Civilization Is Above Their Race. Revolution Succeeds Revolution, And The Country Mourns That Some Petty Chief May Triumph, And Through A Sixty Days' Government Ape The Rulers Of The Earth.

It Was One Of The Compromises Of The Constitution That The Slave Property In The Southern States Should Be Recognized As Property Throughout The United States.