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Put not your trust in slave-masters,--do not hearken to their promises,--do not follow their counsels.
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Sumner warns against trusting slave owners and their promises regarding slavery.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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