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But the absurdity of this threat glares upon us still more, when we reflect on the unhappy condition in which disunion would leave the seceding Slave States.
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Sumner emphasizes the dire consequences of disunion for the seceding Slave States.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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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