NO PROPERTY IN MAN: UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION.
Speech in the Senate, on the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery throughout the United States, April 8, 1864.
The property in horses was the gift of God to man at the creation of the world; the property in slaves is property held and acquired by crime, differing in no moral aspect from the pillage of a freebooter, and to which no lapse of time can give a prescriptive right—John Quincy Adams, Speech at Bridgewater, November 6, 1844.
Swift with her Pand she issued and unclosed
The loathsome sties wherein the swine reposed.
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They men became, but younger than before,