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Nor will any fellow-citizen suffer in rights, but all will find new safeguard in the comprehensive fellowship.
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Sumner believes that all citizens will benefit from a comprehensive fellowship.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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