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Do you doubt this constant, wide-spread outrage, extending in uncounted ramifications throughout the whole land?
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Sumner challenges the audience to recognize the pervasive injustices occurring across the nation.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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!
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
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