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Are you against the erection of the Slave Oligarchy as the dominant power in our Republic?
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner challenges the idea of a Slave Oligarchy gaining power in the United States, emphasizing the threat it poses to democracy.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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