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God knows that I would peril my life in defence of any State of this Union, if assailed by a foreign foe.
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Sumner expresses his willingness to defend any state in the Union against foreign threats.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
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