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The Senate considers only how the safety of the people, which is the supreme law, can be best preserved; and to this end the ordinary rule of evidence is reversed.
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Sumner explains that the Senate prioritizes the safety of the people above all else in its deliberations.
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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.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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