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Buchanan was advanced to power by Slave-Masters, who knew well that he could be used for Slavery.
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Sumner asserts that Buchanan was placed in power by slaveholders who intended to use him to further slavery.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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