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Not an instance occurred which did not shock the conscience of the country and sting it with anger.
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Sumner highlights the moral outrage felt by the nation in response to the injustices of slavery.
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At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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