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Therefore, as you are in earnest against the Rebellion, you will not spare Slavery.
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Sumner urges that a serious commitment against the Rebellion must also include a strong stance against slavery.
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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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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