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The news from Virginia continues to reveal the same tendency,--secession, unless constitutional guaranties are secured for Slavery.
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Sumner warns that Virginia's inclination towards secession is tied to the need for constitutional protections for slavery.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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