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Alas for that race so long oppressed, but at last redeemed from bondage, now plunged back into another hell of torment!
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Sumner mourns the plight of a race that has been oppressed and is now facing new hardships.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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