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Murder stalks, Assassination skulks in the tall grass of the prairie, and the vindictiveness of man assumes unwonted forms.
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Sumner vividly describes the pervasive atmosphere of fear and violence in the Kansas territory.
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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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