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We have learned the Slave Power well enough to know that its schemes of injustice toward us are not the offspring of sudden and transient excitements, but are the deep and well-settled purpose of years.
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Sumner reflects on the long-term and deliberate nature of the injustices perpetrated by the Slave Power.
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