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There was something sublime in the ardor and boldness and majesty with which he spoke.
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Sumner's speech was noted for its passionate delivery and powerful rhetoric against slavery.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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