Thomas Jefferson In an 1820 letter about slavery: “ We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.”

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Thomas Jefferson In an 1820 letter about slavery: “ We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.” book