The National Government itself must be emancipated, so that it shall no longer wear the yoke of servitude; and Slavery in all its pretensions must be dislodged from a usurped foothold in the Free States themselves, thus relieving ourselves from serious responsibility at our own door, and emancipating the North.
Sumner calls for the National Government to free itself from the influence of slavery, highlighting the need for systemic change.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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