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An Amendment to the Constitution will, in the course of a few weeks, place their freedom under the sanction of Constitutional Law.
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Sumner anticipates an upcoming Constitutional Amendment that will legally secure the freedom of slaves.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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