In opening this great matter, I am not insensible to the austere demands of the occasion; but the dependence of the Crime against Kansas upon the Slave Power is so peculiar and important that I trust to be pardoned while I impress it by an illustration which to some may seem trivial.
Sumner acknowledges the gravity of the situation while illustrating the connection to the Slave Power.
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