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If the promptings of his inner nature fail, then must he feel the irresistible obligation of his position.
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Sumner discusses the obligations of a leader, emphasizing the importance of inner conviction and duty in their role.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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