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I have already voted to give Missouri twenty million dollars to secure freedom at once for her slaves, and to make her at once a Free State.
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Sumner expresses his commitment to funding immediate freedom for slaves in Missouri, highlighting his stance on emancipation.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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