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Not with whips and thongs would I scourge him from the land.
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Sumner expresses his belief in moral persuasion rather than violence to combat slavery.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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