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Brothers and sisters we were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.