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The responsibility for the recent Slave Act, and for Slavery everywhere within the jurisdiction of Congress, necessarily involves the right to discuss them.
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Sumner asserts that the responsibility for the Slave Act includes the right to discuss and debate slavery.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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