That, Sir, is the great victory of the war; for in that are consummated all the victories of many bloody fields,--not one victory, or two, but the whole,--gleaming in those principles of Liberty and Equality which are now the pivot jewels of the Constitution.
Sumner celebrates the outcomes of the Civil War as victories for liberty and equality, enshrined in the Constitution.
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