They may affect contempt by their silence, or they may rail and foam like Chesnut, but they know that you have spoken the bitter and biting truth without bitterness and without fear, as became a Christian gentleman.
Sumner asserts that critics recognize the truth spoken by a colleague, despite their outward contempt.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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