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The Government, in taking the responsibility of freeing this people, tacitly engaged to protect them in their freedom.
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Sumner emphasizes the government's obligation to protect the newly freed people after emancipation.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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