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To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T’ enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
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Sumner contemplates the far-reaching influence of American glory on other nations.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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