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It is not simply the question of a few voters more or less in the District, but it is a question of human rights everywhere throughout this land, involving the national character and its good name forevermore.
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Sumner emphasizes that the issue of voting rights is tied to broader human rights.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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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