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Sumner critiques a report for being inconclusive despite its intent.

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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!

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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.

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

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