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Instead of scouting this pretension, and utterly spurning it, new concessions to Slavery were gravely propounded as the means of pacification,--like a new sacrifice offered to an obscene divinity.
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Sumner condemns the idea of making concessions to slavery as a misguided attempt at peace.
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