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Either such wretches must be hung or put in the penitentiary, or the South should prepare at once to quit the Union.
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Sumner argues for extreme measures against those he deems unworthy of the Union.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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