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abolition
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When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote.†
Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.†
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I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait till they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them.†

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name—if ten honest men only—ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this co-partnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America.†

Definitions:

(1) (abolition)
the act of formally ending a system, practice, or institution -- most often used to refer to the movement to end slavery when no specific system is named
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)