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No false tenderness, no casuistry of politics, must intrude to save it anywhere; for you cannot save Slavery anywhere without just to that extent saving the Rebellion.
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He warns against political compromises that would allow slavery to persist alongside the fight against the Rebellion.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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