It is not now what it was in the beginning, a Republic merely permitting, while it regretted Slavery,--tolerating it only where it could not be removed, and interdicting it where it did not exist,--but a mighty Propagandist, openly favoring and vindicating it,--visiting, also, with displeasure all who oppose it.
Sumner argues that the government has shifted from a position of tolerating slavery to actively promoting it.
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