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This is the Great Guaranty without which all other guaranties will fail.
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Sumner asserts that equal rights are fundamental to the success of all other guarantees in governance.
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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 belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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