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Nor do I believe it possible, whatever the delusion of the hour, that any part can be permanently lost from its well-compacted bulk.
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Sumner asserts his belief in the permanence and integrity of the Union despite challenges.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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