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I have said, that, while other Senators have shared his convictions, none has seemed so emphatically, so eminently, as he to embody and represent the growing, deepening Antislavery sentiment of the country.
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Sumner emphasizes that no other senator has so strongly represented the growing Antislavery sentiment as this individual.
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