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Surely, if the Oligarchy is to live yet longer, its badges should symbolize its peculiar despotism born of Slavery.
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Sumner highlights the need for symbols that reflect the true nature of a government born from slavery.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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