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In this way you vainly think to withdraw the subject of Slavery from National Politics.
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Sumner critiques the idea of removing slavery from national politics, asserting its inescapable presence in public discourse.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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