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Fellow-citizens, you shall decide, on hearing the story, if we also have not complaints; but I, too, hope that all will end well.
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Sumner invites his fellow citizens to reflect on their own grievances while remaining hopeful for resolution.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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.
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