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They may take that responsibility; but I shall take mine, God willing.
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Sumner asserts his commitment to take responsibility for advocating the bill, regardless of the outcome.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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