But without pursuing this game of political sweepstakes, which the Slave Power has perpetually played, we present what is more important, as indicative of its spirit,--the aggressions and usurpations by which it has turned the National Government from its original character of Freedom, and prostituted it to Slavery.
Sumner criticizes the political maneuvering of the Slave Power that corrupted the National Government's original purpose of promoting freedom.
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