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All experience shows that the partisans of Slavery stick at nothing, where the imagined interests of Slavery are in question.
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Sumner critiques the lengths to which pro-slavery partisans will go to protect their interests, reflecting on the moral implications.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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