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Wherever a favored class appears, whether in one or the other, its republican character ceases.
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Sumner argues that the presence of a favored class undermines the republican nature of a government.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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