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All legal quibbling and selfish calculation has been consumed like straw in the burning sense of incredible insult.
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Sumner emphasizes the overwhelming public outrage in response to perceived insults during the Trent Affair.
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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!
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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