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The heads of the hydra will be extirpated and the monster destroyed, never more to show itself.
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Sumner emphasizes the need to eliminate the threat of slavery in a powerful metaphor.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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