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The Republic, which they could no longer rule, they determined to ruin.
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Sumner claims that the slaveholders aimed to destroy the Republic they could no longer control.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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