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A brave and intelligent people will not bend before menace, nor can any such attempt affect a well-considered national policy.
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Sumner emphasizes the resilience of a courageous nation in the face of threats.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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