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This concession was the ultimatum on which was staked their continued loyalty to the Union,--as the continuance of the Slave-Trade was the original condition on which South Carolina and Georgia entered the Union.
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Sumner discusses how the loyalty of certain states to the Union hinged on the issue of slavery concessions.
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