If, in this discussion, I expose grievances which it were better to forget, be assured it is from no willingness to revive the buried animosities they once so justly aroused, but simply to exhibit the proud position which the United States early and constantly maintained.
Sumner reflects on the importance of addressing grievances in a historical context, emphasizing the United States' principled stance.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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