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It is in your power to make the day more than ever sacred.
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Sumner urges that it is within the power of lawmakers to make a significant change on a commemorative day.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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