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Above all, belligerent Slavery must not rear its crest as an independent power.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Above all, belligerent Slavery must not rear its crest as an independent power.”
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Sumner insists that slavery must not be allowed to assert itself as a separate power.
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