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And if you ask for evidence of desire for freedom, you will find it in the little slave-girl, journeying North, whom Banks took up on his cannon.
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Sumner illustrates the deep desire for freedom through the story of a young slave girl escaping to the North.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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