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There is no country, professing civilization, where this right is not sacred.
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Sumner declares the sanctity of the right to petition as a universal principle across civilized nations.
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It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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