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Full well I know that I am in a small minority, with few here to whom I can look for sympathy or support.
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Sumner expresses his awareness of being in the minority on a particular issue, highlighting his isolation.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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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