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The bill would have been hastened on its way, and a people long enslaved and degraded would be at last lifted to equality.
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Sumner argues that the bill's passage would elevate formerly enslaved individuals to equality.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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