Proceeding with the dissection, I now exhibit the proposition, not only as a concession to State Rights, which is admitted by a Louisiana supporter, but, if unhappily adopted, as the constitutional recognition of an Oligarchy, Aristocracy, Caste, and Monopoly founded on color.
Sumner warns that adopting the proposition would recognize an oligarchy based on race, disguised as State Rights.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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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