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Taking our place as a new party, we fulfil the desires of many good men, living and dead, who have longed to see the thraldom of the old organizations broken.
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Sumner reflects on the aspirations of those who wished to see the end of old political organizations.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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!
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