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Are you, in point of fact, at this moment able to protect yourselves against your slaves without our assistance?
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner questions the ability of slaveholders to protect themselves, implying their reliance on external support.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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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