But I have read enough to approve, and rejoice that you have been permitted thus truly, fully, and faithfully to expose the ‘Barbarism’ of Slavery on that very floor on which you were so cruelly and brutally stricken down by the spirit of that Barbarism.
Sumner expresses his approval of a speech that critiques the brutality of slavery, reflecting his strong anti-slavery stance.
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