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In refusing it such a place, I do not deny popular rights, but uphold them, I do not restrain popular rights, but extend them.
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Sumner defends the extension of popular rights while opposing the establishment of slavery.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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