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State Rights were exalted and the Nation was humbled, because in this way Slavery might be protected.
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Sumner highlights the historical elevation of state rights at the expense of national integrity to protect slavery.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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