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Let it now take stand between the living and dead, and cause this plague to be stayed.
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Sumner calls for action to stop the violence and oppression occurring in Kansas, likening it to a plague.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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