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I assume that no such blunder will be made by us,--that we shall not leave to the old proprietors the maintenance of that freedom to which we are pledged, and thus break our own promises and sacrifice a race.
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Sumner expresses confidence that the U.S. will not abandon its commitment to freedom by leaving it to former proprietors.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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