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Excerpt from Remarks of Dr. J. R. Burden, of Philadelphia Co., In the Senate of Pennsylvania, on the Abolition Question, February, 1838: Also His Valedictory Address as Speaker of the Senate, April, 1838
O'ur fatheis when they declared independence in 1776, could not abolish domestic slavery - it had been introduced by the mother country. 'ten they declared that all men were free and equal, they did'not use the declaration in its unlimited sense - they knew that men were unequal in many respects. Had they intended it in the sense Which some in our day have endeavored to attach to it, domestic slavery would have ceased so far as it was in their power to have abolished it; they, however used the phrase, aware of the existence of domestic slavery, and with no intention of eradicating it.
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