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It was a swindle of a broad territory, thus cheated of protection against Slavery.
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He asserts that the measure cheated a broad territory of its protection against slavery, emphasizing the injustice involved.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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