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The Presidential election turned on Slavery, and nothing else.
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Sumner asserts that the Presidential election was fundamentally about slavery, underscoring its centrality in politics.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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