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The mistaken sympathy which foreign powers bestow upon Slavery,--or, it may be, the mistaken insensibility,--under the plausible name of “neutrality,” which they profess, will be worse for them than for us.
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Sumner critiques foreign powers' stance on slavery, suggesting their neutrality may lead to shame.
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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.
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!
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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