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Elsewhere it has been kept back in becoming modesty; here it is pushed forward in all its brutish nakedness.
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Sumner critiques the overt display of brutality in the context of slavery in America.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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!
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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