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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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
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Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
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