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The fetter which binds the slave in Kansas binds every citizen in Massachusetts.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner asserts that the oppression of slaves in Kansas affects all citizens, including those in Massachusetts.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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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