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President, men are wisely presumed to intend the natural consequences of their conduct, and to seek what their acts seem to promote.
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Sumner asserts that individuals are expected to understand the consequences of their actions in politics.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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