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Why continue on the country the burden of the injustice which this bill proposes to relieve?
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Sumner questions the rationale for continuing to burden the country with injustice that the bill aims to address.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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!
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