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Nobody, throughout this Republic, who cannot repeat the hateful word, is taken,--nobody, unless faithful to Slavery, is accepted for any post under the National Government.
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In this quote, Sumner highlights the exclusionary practices in government that favor those who support slavery.
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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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