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I do not condemn political parties, but warn against their tyranny.
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Sumner expresses a cautionary stance towards political parties, acknowledging their potential for tyranny.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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 larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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