Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Bold text displayed as: =bold= There is a deep and growing conviction in the minds of the mass of mankind, that slavery violates the great laws of our nature; that it is contrary to the dictates of humanity; that it is essentially unjust, oppressive, and cruel; that it invades the rights of liberty with which the Author of our being has endowed all human beings; and that in all the forms in which it has ever existed, it has been impossible to guard it from what its friends and advocates would call _abuses_ of the system. It is a violation of the first sentiments expressed in our Declaration of Independence, and on which our fathers f…
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