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You disown distinctions of sect: why keep up those of color?
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Sumner challenges the hypocrisy of rejecting sectarian distinctions while maintaining racial ones.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of 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.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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.
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