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Yes, let it be proclaimed, that now at last, not honesty, not capacity, not fidelity to the Constitution is the test for office, but unhesitating support of Slavery.
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Sumner condemns the shift in political values where loyalty to slavery has become the primary qualification for office.
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In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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