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It is because I would not have the art of my own country suffer, and because I would have its honors follow merit, that I oppose the largess you offer.
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Sumner explains his opposition to a proposed appropriation, emphasizing the importance of merit in art.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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