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It is vain to say that the concession was a “necessity.” There may have been strong temptation to it, constituting, perhaps, imagined necessity, as with many there is strong temptation to Slavery itself.
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Sumner asserts that the justification for concessions is flawed and likens it to the temptation of slavery.
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