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Oh, Sir! prostrate the Slave Oligarchy, and the gates of Emancipation will be open at the South.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Oh, Sir! prostrate the Slave Oligarchy, and the gates of Emancipation will be open at the South.”
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Sumner calls for the defeat of the Slave Oligarchy as a means to achieve emancipation in the South.
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