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You become a traitor at once to the existing government and to the very idea of popular rule.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner asserts that denying the election results equates to betraying both the government and the principle of popular sovereignty.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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