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The country expects it; the country will rejoice and be grateful, if you will signalize this first day of your coming together by this beautiful and generous act.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of passing a significant bill on the first day of the Senate session, appealing to the nation's expectations.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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!
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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