All tyranny, like murder, is foul at the best; but this is most foul, strange, and unnatural, especially when it is considered that the States occupied by the Slave Oligarchy are far below the Free States in resources of all kinds.
In this quote, Sumner condemns the tyranny of the Slave Oligarchy, comparing it to murder and highlighting its unnaturalness.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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