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Hating the Rebellion in its origin and all the circumstances that nursed it into wicked being, we must hate this decision.
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Sumner expresses his strong opposition to the Dred Scott decision and its origins.
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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 first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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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.
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