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The proposition before you is the most important ever brought into Congress, unless, perhaps, we except the Amendment abolishing Slavery; and to my mind it is the most reprehensible.
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Sumner highlights the significance of a current proposition in Congress, comparing it to the abolition of slavery.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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