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As every point in a wide-spread horizon radiates from a common centre, so everything said or done in this vast circle of Crime radiates from the One Idea, that Kansas, at all hazards, must be made a Slave State.
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Sumner illustrates how the overarching goal of making Kansas a Slave State drives all actions and events in the region.
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