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They shut off from the Constitution every fountain out of which it can be derived.
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Sumner argues that the Constitution excludes any justification for slavery, emphasizing its commitment to freedom.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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