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I shall be glad hereafter to act with him in carrying out the original purposes of this bill, so that no State shall be able to set itself in the way of the internal commerce of the country.
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Sumner expresses his willingness to collaborate on the bill's original goals to protect internal commerce.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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