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For this I spoke in the Senate, and I shall be proud to regard these contributions thus applied as my words hardened into deeds.
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Sumner reflects on his speech in the Senate and the significance of contributions as actions.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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