Multitudes, formerly your enemies and revilers, are not merely willing to tolerate you, not merely willing to be satisfied with you, but have become actually proud of you, as their representative, and the champion of Massachusetts and the North.
Sumner reflects on the changing perceptions of a political figure, highlighting their newfound support among former critics.
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