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Washington and Lincoln led in the first and second revolutions, but it was left for Charles Sumner to lead in the third,--a revolution in Constitutional and Republican ideas.
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Sumner is recognized as a leader in a transformative movement for constitutional and republican ideals.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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