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How futile to think that there can be any consent to the establishment of a Slave Power taken from our Republic!
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Sumner expresses disbelief that anyone could consent to the establishment of a Slave Power in the Republic.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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