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The experiment can do no good, while it may do harm.
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Sumner expresses skepticism about the potential benefits of a proposed experiment, highlighting the risk of harm instead.
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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
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