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Not from slave soil, but from free soil, comes this effort.
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Sumner points out that the effort to support slavery is coming from free soil, highlighting hypocrisy.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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