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Every reduction of rate has been followed by a corresponding increase in the number of letters.
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Sumner emphasizes the correlation between reduced postage rates and increased letter volume, highlighting the benefits of postal reform.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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