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Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
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Sumner poetically expresses the profound impact of loss on both humanity and nature.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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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