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Whatever may be the private sentiments of some of its members, clearly it is not a party wedded to Freedom for better and for worse, and clinging to it with a grasp never to be unloosed.
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Sumner argues that the party in question is not genuinely committed to freedom despite some members' private beliefs.
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