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And, Sir, looking round upon this Senate, I might ask fearlessly, how many there are, even in this body,--if, indeed, there be a single Senator,--who would stoop to any such service?
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Sumner challenges the integrity of his fellow senators, questioning their willingness to engage in morally questionable actions.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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