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Kansas must be saved from a tyrannical usurpation, under which Slavery has been forcibly established on Free Soil.
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Sumner calls for the protection of Kansas from the imposition of slavery.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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