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I see our politics now in distant perspective, and I am more than ever satisfied that our course is right.
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Sumner reflects on his political beliefs and the righteousness of his cause.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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