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Congress has done this great act of justice, and, thank God, it cannot be undone.
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Sumner celebrates Congress's actions as a permanent achievement of justice that cannot be reversed.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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