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I do not admit that he can in any way set it aside; but I wish to do everything that can be done to prevent him from undertaking to set it aside.
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Sumner asserts his belief that the Executive should not have the power to disregard Senate decisions, advocating for proactive measures.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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