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Sumner asserts that both the Rebellion and Slavery are ongoing issues that need to be addressed.

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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.

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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.

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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.

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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!

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