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Whatever is given for Prospective Emancipation will be a gratuity to slaveholders and a tribute to Slavery.
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Sumner argues that funding for Prospective Emancipation serves only to benefit slaveholders and uphold slavery.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
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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