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Not so spoke the Fathers of the Republic, who would not let us miss an opportunity to vote Slavery down.
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Sumner contrasts the views of the Founding Fathers with those who support slavery.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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!
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.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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