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Under this wicked inspiration, State after State pretended to withdraw from the Union, and to construct a new Confederacy, whose “corner-stone” was Slavery.
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Sumner critiques the Confederacy's foundation on slavery, highlighting its moral implications.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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