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History does not forget Lovejoy, who for devotion to the cause of the slave was murdered by a fanatical mob; and it has already enshrined Abraham Lincoln in holiest keeping.
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Sumner honors Lovejoy and Lincoln as martyrs for the cause of abolition, emphasizing their lasting impact.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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