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Their recent nominations were made to serve its interests, to secure its supremacy, and especially to promote the extension of Slavery.
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Sumner argues that recent political nominations serve the interests of the Slave Power.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
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!
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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