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The Slavery question could not be suppressed: the Chief Justice of England could not suppress it.
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Sumner emphasizes the inevitability of the slavery debate in legal and political discourse.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of 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.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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