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Strike at the Black Code, as you have already struck at the Slave Code.
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In this statement, Sumner advocates for the abolition of discriminatory laws against Black people.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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!
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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