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This resolution was never called up for consideration, but it stands on the Journal of the Senate in perpetual testimony of the assumption of the Slave Power and its tyrannical hardihood.
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Sumner highlights a resolution that symbolizes the oppressive nature of the Slave Power.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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