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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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