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If such be the condition of the public mind, the Government must recognize it.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of government acknowledging public sentiment.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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