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With so great an object in view, I do not doubt its accomplishment at an early day, if the Nation only wills it.
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Sumner expresses confidence in the nation's ability to achieve financial goals if there is collective will.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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