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9223. YOUNG MEN, Slavery and.—[further continued].

[In Virginia] * * * the sacred side [in the conflict with slavery] is gaining daily recruits from the influx into
office of young men grown and growing up.
These have sucked in the principles of liberty,
as it were, with their mothers' milk; and it is
to them I look with anxiety to turn the fate
of this question.—
To Dr. Price. Washington ed. i, 377. Ford ed., iv, 83.
(P. 1785)