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The issue may be moderate at first, and sustained by plausible reasons, but it breaks soon into excess.
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Sumner warns that the initial moderation of paper money issuance often leads to excess.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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