My vote will not be needed; but I am unwilling that the opportunity should pass of uttering my determined NO against the efforts now making to subjugate Kansas and to install the Slave Oligarchy in permanent control of the National Government.
Sumner declares his intention to vote against the subjugation of Kansas and the establishment of a slave government.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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