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I have read nothing for a long while that has moved me so much as your speech in the Senate on the 5th and 6th inst.
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Sumner shares his emotional response to a recent Senate speech, indicating its profound impact on him.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
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!
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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