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I conjure you, as you love Freedom, save yourself: we need you more in the future than now.
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Sumner urges a friend to prioritize their health for the sake of future efforts in the fight for freedom.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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