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It addresses us in formal complaint, instinct with the indignation of a people determined to be free, and unimpeachable as the declarations of a murdered man on his dying-bed against his murderer.
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Sumner expresses the deep indignation of a people fighting for their freedom, likening their struggle to the final words of a murdered man.
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