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For the sake of our cause, and that it may have new strength in the swelling sympathies of the civilized world, it should be repealed at once, without hesitation.
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Sumner calls for the immediate repeal of a statute to strengthen the cause against slavery.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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