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As I listened to the Senator from Illinois, while he painfully strove to show that there is no Usurpation, I was reminded of the effort by a distinguished logician to prove that Napoleon Bonaparte never existed.
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Sumner uses a metaphor about Napoleon to illustrate the absurdity of denying the usurpation's existence.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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.
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