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I am prepared to vote for it without amendment or condition of any kind, and on reasons which seem to me at once obvious and conclusive.
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Sumner expresses his readiness to support a resolution without amendments, citing clear and compelling reasons.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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