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On this unanswerable proposition I take my stand, and here commences my argument.
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Sumner declares his foundational argument regarding the relationship between the National Government and Slavery.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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