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If ever the argument of convenience was strong, peculiarly strong, it is now, when a wicked rebellion has undertaken to withdraw the Senators of eleven States, thus reducing our numbers.
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Sumner emphasizes the urgency of the situation due to the rebellion affecting Senate representation.
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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.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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