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  • The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an
    equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

    Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois
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