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Slavery, by the very act of rebellion, ceased to exist, legally or constitutionally.
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Sumner claims that slavery legally ceased to exist due to the act of rebellion.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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