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Our rights are his rights; our equality is his equality; our privileges and immunities are his great freehold.
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Sumner emphasizes that the rights and privileges of citizens extend to all, including former slaves.
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I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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