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The tempest may blow,--but ours is a life-boat, not to be harmed by wind or wave.
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Sumner uses a metaphor to convey resilience in the face of challenges, likening their cause to a sturdy lifeboat.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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