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It is a self-evident axiom, which only tyrants and slave-traders have denied.
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He asserts that the principle of freedom is self-evident, rejected only by oppressors.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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!
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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