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We need a song like “Scots who have with Wallace bled.” The cause is greater now than then.
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Sumner expresses the need for a powerful anthem to inspire the fight against oppression.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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