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Opinions are allies more potent than subsidies, especially in an age like the present.
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Sumner asserts the power of public opinion in shaping political outcomes, especially in contemporary society.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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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