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Every drop of his generous blood cries out from the ground against Slavery.
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Sumner poetically conveys that the blood of the fallen soldier serves as a lasting indictment against slavery.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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