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It is what it professes to be, an examination of the institution of Slavery itself,--and we venture to say a more acute, comprehensive, exhaustive, and powerful exposition of the whole subject never was made.
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Sumner asserts that his speech provides a thorough examination of slavery, claiming it to be the most powerful exposition on the subject.
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