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President, does any one suppose that these agents of the Rebel Government were moved to this criminal enterprise merely by considerations of plunder?--that they risked life and everything merely to rob a bank?
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Sumner questions the motivations behind a criminal act, suggesting it was not merely for theft.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
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!
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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