An intrigue is now pending to secure a foothold in Hayti; and even the distant valley of the Amazon is embraced in these gigantic schemes, by which the despotism of the Slave Power is to be established, while you and I, and all of us from the North, are to bow down before it.
Sumner warns about the expansion of slavery and imperialism in the Americas.
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It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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