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This speech, for the first time in the history of Congressional speeches, sets forth, without the slightest veil or mincing of the matter, the deformities, obliquities, and immoralities of the Slavery system.
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Sumner claims his speech is groundbreaking for its unfiltered critique of the slavery system in Congressional discourse.
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