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On the high seas, under the national flag, Slavery will be impossible.
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Sumner asserts that slavery cannot exist on the high seas under the national flag, emphasizing its illegality.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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