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As well attempt to explain the Gulf Stream without the Gulf of Mexico, or the Origin of Evil without the human heart, as attempt to explain the present degraded character of the National Government without Slavery.
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Sumner asserts that slavery is fundamental to understanding the degraded state of the national government.
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