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Even while professing allegiance and asking your vote, they proclaim war in a new form.
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Sumner highlights the contradiction of professing loyalty while simultaneously promoting conflict.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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!
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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