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But the federal government has jurisdiction over territories,
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It has jurisdiction over the district of columbia,
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And the slogan that flows from this idea of
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an anti-slavery interpretation of the constitution is
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"make freedom national, slavery sectional."
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That slavery shall forever be, they say, a regional, sectional,
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Local institution, not a national institution,
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Which was an implicit way of saying
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the west shall be kept free for free labor at all cost.
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And then thirdly, the republican party is rooted--
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And this is why it could become a coalition--
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it's rooted in this cluster of ideas we've come to call here--