On the record
I am for our country with the aspiration that it may be always right; but I am for nothing wrong.
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Sumner expresses his support for the country while advocating for moral correctness.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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!
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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