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Without the moral support of the Free States, these powerful statesmen would have shrunk from the unequal battle.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of moral support from Free States in the fight against slavery.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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