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To govern according to law may sometimes be an usurper’s wish, but can seldom be in his power.
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Sumner emphasizes the limitations of those who seek to govern unlawfully, highlighting the inherent challenges they face.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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