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Don’t let these words be ever out of your mind, when you think of any proposition from the Slave-Masters.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of vigilance against the intentions of slaveholders.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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!
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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