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It is precisely the pressure of Slavery, and not the license of Freedom, that causes overflow.
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Sumner asserts that the pressure of slavery, rather than freedom, leads to societal overflow.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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