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Whigs and Democrats,--I use the old names still,--professing to represent conflicting sentiments, concur in being representatives of the Slave Power.
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Sumner critiques both Whigs and Democrats for representing the interests of the Slave Power.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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!
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