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Every escape from Slavery necessarily and instinctively awakens the regard of all who love Freedom.
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Sumner emphasizes the instinctive support for freedom that arises from every escape from slavery.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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.
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