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Not that I love the Union less, but Freedom more, do I now, in pleading this great cause, insist that Freedom, at all hazards, shall be preserved.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of freedom over the preservation of the Union in his advocacy for civil rights.
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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.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
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