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Slavery, which at the beginning was a sectional institution, with no foothold anywhere on the National Territory, is now exalted as national, and all our broad domain is threatened by its blighting shadow.
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Sumner warns that slavery, once a sectional issue, is now a national threat to the entire territory.
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