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Can we confess that a great government of the world must fold its arms, and see a foreign enemy--for such it is--crossing the sea and invading our shores, yet we unable to meet it?
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Sumner expresses disbelief that a powerful nation would remain passive in the face of foreign invasion.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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