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In the madness of its despotism, it has selected a position the least tenable of all its assumptions.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In the madness of its despotism, it has selected a position the least tenable of all its assumptions.”
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Sumner argues that the despotism of the Slave Oligarchy has led it to adopt an untenable position.
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