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Especially allow me to thank you for the discourse of the Barbarism of Slavery; for it shows you well again, and leading on the good fight.
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Sumner thanks a colleague for their discourse on slavery, recognizing its contribution to the ongoing fight for justice.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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!
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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