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But every day of delay in its repeal is hurtful to the national cause and to the national name.
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Sumner warns that delaying the repeal of a harmful statute is detrimental to the nation's reputation and cause.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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