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And, Sir, believing in God, as I profoundly do, I cannot doubt that the opening of an immense region to so great an enormity as Slavery is calculated to draw down upon our country his righteous judgments.
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Sumner invokes a belief in divine judgment regarding the expansion of slavery in the nation.
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