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Sumner said that the Committee “felt that we had better make a clean thing, purify the country, and lift it before foreign nations, which could be only by washing our hands of Slavery.” Mr.
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Sumner advocates for a complete and moral cleansing of the nation by abolishing slavery, which he believes is necessary for international respect.
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