The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-12-08

WASHINGTON, D. c.
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with the True, and to make both Immediately
subservient to the practical purposes of every
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and the Equality of Rights, and opposes what
ever violates Or tends to violate them, whether
this be Involuntary Personal Servitude, Civi
Despotism, Spiritual Ab5olutism, Class Legis
laton, tho SelfshDess Of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression of a Majority
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against each other are obsolete or settled, and
that they are now chiefly used by the Sectional
Interest Of Slavery to impair the love of Lib
erty natural to the American mind, and t.
subjugate the American People to its rule. Dis
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substantial interests of the country, although
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