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If legal chicanery can avail, those rights will be but nominal, and they will remain, as they have ever been, isolated and apart,--free in name, but slaves in fact.
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Sumner warns that legal manipulations could render the rights of freedmen meaningless.
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I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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