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That traditional experience, that infinite audacity, that insensibility to Human Rights, which so long upheld Slavery, are aroused anew.
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Sumner reflects on the historical attitudes that supported slavery and their resurgence.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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