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President, this is not the only bill on the Calendar which concerns the rights of colored persons.
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Sumner highlights the ongoing legislative efforts concerning the rights of African Americans.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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 larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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.
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