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God forbid that Congress should abdicate its beneficent powers!
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Sumner passionately warns against Congress abdicating its powers.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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