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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government,--that is despotism.
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This declared indifference, but, as I must think, real, covert zeal, for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate.
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On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been.