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It is even proposed to surrender the principle of Freedom in the Territories,--the Fort Sumter of the North.
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Sumner criticizes proposals to compromise the principle of freedom in the Territories.
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Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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