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None will say that this combination will oppose the Slave Power, of which their candidate is a component part.
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Sumner asserts that the political coalition will not challenge the power of slavery.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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