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A grand and terrible philippic, worthy of the great occasion; the severe and awful truth which the sharp agony of the national crisis demanded.
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Sumner describes a powerful speech that addresses the national crisis with truth and urgency.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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