Why can’t the golden chance be clutched to say to the whole South, ‘Good!--you rebel,--you are no longer slaveholders, nor can you ever be again.’ How it would ring round the world, and transcendently through Heaven!
Sumner expresses a bold vision for the South, advocating for the end of slavery and its implications.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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