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Nothing could do so much to settle the question of Equal Rights forever in the United States.
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Sumner believes that achieving equal rights would resolve the issue permanently in the U.S.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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