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And, generally, we demand from the National Government the exercise of all constitutional power to relieve itself from responsibility for Slavery.
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Sumner urges the National Government to use its constitutional powers to distance itself from slavery.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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