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Overthrown in argument, the Slave-Masters resorted to threats of disunion.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Overthrown in argument, the Slave-Masters resorted to threats of disunion.”
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Sumner points out that when arguments failed, slaveholders resorted to threats of disunion.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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