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The time has come, the trial has been made, the hour is striking; you have no longer a pretext for hesitation or faltering or delay.
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Sumner emphasizes the urgency of action against injustice and the need to move forward decisively.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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!
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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