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Hear this, fellow-citizens, and confess that no barbarity of despotism, no extravagance of tyranny, no excess of impiety can be more blasphemous or deadly.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Hear this, fellow-citizens, and confess that no barbarity of despotism, no extravagance of tyranny, no excess of impiety…”
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Sumner calls out the extreme moral failings of tyranny and despotism in relation to slavery.
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