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And since the Slave Power now stakes on this issue all its ill-gotten supremacy, the People, while vindicating Kansas, will at the same time overthrow this Tyranny.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “And since the Slave Power now stakes on this issue all its ill-gotten supremacy, the People, while vindicating Kansas…”
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Sumner argues that the struggle for Kansas's freedom is also a fight against the broader tyranny of the Slave Power.
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