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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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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
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