The institution is a tower of strength to the South, particularly at the present crisis, and our enemies will be likely to find that the ‘moral cancer,’ about which their orators are so fond of prating, is really one of the most effective weapons employed against the Union by the South.
In this statement, Sumner argues that slavery is a significant source of strength for the South in the context of the Civil War.
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