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This cannot be purposely done, without departing from fundamental principles, and overthrowing the presiding doctrine of personal equality.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of personal equality in governance and warns against actions that undermine it.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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