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Emancipation, they tell us, is a wild, delusive idea the price of human flesh was never higher than now slavery was never more closely entwined about the hearts and affections of the southern people than now that whatever of conscientious scruple, religious conviction, or public policy, which opposed the system of slavery forty or fifty years ago, has subsided and that slavery never reposed upon a firmer basis than now. Eminent men, North and South, in Church and State, tell us that the omens are all against us. To many, the prospects of the struggle against slavery seem far from cheering. It is a fitting time to take an observation to ascertain where we are, and what our prospects are.
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It is not for us to be governed by our hopes or our fears in this great work yet it is natural on occasions like this, to survey the position of the great struggle which is going on between slavery and freedom, and to dwell upon such signs of encouragement as may have been lately developed, and the state of feeling these signs or events have occasioned in us and among the people generally. While four millions of our fellow countrymen are in chains-while men, women, and children are bought and sold on the auction-block with horses, sheep, and swine-while the remorseless slave-whip draws the warm blood of our common humanity-it is meet that we assemble as we have done to-day, and lift up our hearts and voices in earnest denunciation of the vile and shocking abomination. 4th, and the other on the Dred Scott decision, delivered in New York, on the occasion of the anniversary of the American Abolition Society, May, 1857, Rochester, 1857 Two speeches by Frederick Douglass one on West India emancipation, delivered at Canandaigua, Aug. THE DRED SCOTT DECISION, speech delivered before American Anti-Slavery Society, New York, May 14, 1857