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I doubt whether such an assumption can stand an argument in this Chamber; I doubt whether it can stand a discussion before a court of justice.
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Sumner doubts the validity of certain assumptions regarding the Senate's powers in legal discussions.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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