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If you would trample down the Rebellion, you must trample down Slavery; and, believe me, it must be completely done.
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Here, Sumner argues that defeating the rebellion requires a complete abolition of slavery.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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