Compelling the National Government to stretch its Briarean arms into the Free States for the sake of Slavery, you show openly how it may stretch these same hundred giant arms into the Slave States for the sake of Freedom.
He critiques the national government's involvement in state matters regarding slavery, warning of potential future implications.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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.
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