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Strange that now, while we are in deadly conflict with Slavery, it should be proposed to keep alive an ancient support of Slavery.
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Sumner expresses his disbelief that support for slavery persists even during a conflict against it.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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!
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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