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Citizens at the North, while avowing hostility to Slavery, professed to be alarmed for the Union.
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Sumner critiques Northern citizens who, while opposing slavery, feared for the Union's stability.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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