Here, for instance, is an excellent map of North America, purporting to be published by the Geographical Institute of Weimar as late as 1859, on which we have the Yukon pictured, very much like the Niger in Africa, as a large river meandering in the interior with no outlet to the sea.
Sumner critiques a map that inaccurately represents the Yukon River as meandering without an outlet.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
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