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All that are united on these existing questions and present interests are not likely to weaken their efforts to promote them by angry reflections on past differences.
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This statement highlights that unity on current issues can help avoid divisive reflections on past disagreements.
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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!
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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