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Rebel Slavery stood face to face in deadly conflict with the Declaration of Independence, when the President, with unconscious power, dealt another blow, second only to the Proclamation of Emancipation.
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Sumner reflects on the conflict between slavery and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence during the Civil War.
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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
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