Say what you will, try to avoid it, if you can, you are compelled to admit that the candidate power is nothing else than organized Slavery, now, in its madness, surrounded by its criminal clan, and led by its felon chieftains, braving the civilization of the age.
Sumner asserts that the power in question is essentially organized slavery, defying civilization.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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!
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