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Therefore against every effort of surrender the Proclamation presents an insuperable barrier.
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Sumner states that the Emancipation Proclamation acts as a barrier against any attempts to surrender to slavery.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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