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It may foam with abuse and bristle with perversion of fact; but it cannot obscure the unquestionable truth, which now stares everybody in the face, that a vote for Buchanan is a vote for all these bad things.
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Sumner asserts that voting for Buchanan equates to endorsing multiple injustices, including the forceful extension of slavery.
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