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Conscience has its voice, and will be heard in awful warning hurrying to and fro in the midnight hour.
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Sumner speaks to the moral conscience that warns against injustice, especially in the context of slavery.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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