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To me it seems the Democratic party is utterly and ostentatiously profligate, the unblushing advocates of human slavery and piratical warfare, the most God-defying party which ever cursed our country.
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Sumner condemns the Democratic party for its support of slavery and war, calling it morally corrupt.
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