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Sumner condemns the proposed boundary as disgraceful in the context of slavery.

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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.

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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.

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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.

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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.

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