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But how accord this place to a President who makes his great office a plaything and perquisite, while his highest industry is in quarrelling?
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Sumner criticizes a President for treating the office as a trivial pursuit rather than a serious responsibility.
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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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