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And yet you and I here in Massachusetts are summoned, under threats of disunion, to withdraw opposition to the extension of Slavery, and in token thereof to vote for Bell, or Breckinridge, or Douglas.
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Sumner addresses the pressure to accept the extension of slavery, asserting his refusal to comply with such demands.
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