We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
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