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Not to save the country, but to save belligerent Slavery, is the object of the misnamed Democracy.
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Sumner condemns the Democratic Party for prioritizing the preservation of slavery over the nation's welfare.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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