Even with the curtain yet slightly lifted, it is easy to see that events are gathering, which, in their development, must constitute the third great epoch in the history of this Western Hemisphere,--the first being its discovery by Christopher Columbus, and the second the American Revolution.
Sumner predicts that significant historical events are unfolding, marking a pivotal era in the Americas.
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It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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