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Nobly and well have you met the expectations of those who, like myself, have waited through four years of silence for your next utterance on the great sin of our times.
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Sumner commends an individual for meeting the expectations of those awaiting their next statement on slavery.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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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