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All this was treason,--plain, palpable, unquestionable, downright treason.
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Here, Sumner unequivocally labels certain actions as treason, emphasizing their clear and undeniable nature.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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!
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