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It is not a combination fired by partisan zeal, and kept together, as with mechanical force, by considerations of political expediency only,--but a sincere, conscientious, inflexible union for the sake of Freedom.
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Sumner describes the party as a genuine union for freedom, rather than a mere political alliance based on expediency.
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